It was difficult to find in the Gnome Settings, but yes, you're right : there's a French(legacy,variant) that can be reached and should be taken to have the dead keys back.
So it isn't a bug, eventually, that I've encountered. Except that I don't understand how my keyboard might have changed its layout once.
Thanks for all the help you provided !
It's fine now. À È Ù Ì Ỳ...
Regards,
Marc Le Bihan
De : "Simon McVittie" <smcv@debian.org>
A : grunt2@laposte.net,1072720@bugs.debian.org,xkeyboard-config@packages.debian.org,debian-l10n-french@lists.debian.org,ibus@packages.debian.org
Envoyé: lundi 10 Juin 2024 13:37
Objet : Re: Bug#1072720: libglib2.0-0: Following fix #1070745, typing `A keys doesn't type an À anymore
On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 at 12:35:25 +0200, grunt2@laposte.net wrote:
> Among GNOME settings, I have three choices available:
> Français
> Français Azerty
> Français Azerty (AFNOR)
There should be a lot more than that. I don't speak French, but in an
English-language GNOME installation on Debian 12, if I click on "Other"
and search for French, choices available to me include:
* French (alt.)
* French (alt., Latin-9 only)
* French (alt., no dead keys)
* French (legacy, alt.)
* French (legacy, alt., no dead keys)
* French (no dead keys)
... and many more. Many of these are AZERTY layouts even though their
names don't specifically say so.
Based on the information in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr, it seems that
"French (legacy, alt.)" should be an AZERTY layout where AltGr+[7] is a
"dead_grave" dead key.
If I'm reading the translation files correctly, the French translation
of "French (legacy, alt.)" might be "Français (obsolète, variante)".
I am not a French speaker and I am not familiar with the history
of French keyboard layouts, so I cannot say whether you are right
or wrong to expect that AltGr+[7] should be a dead key. Perhaps
would be able to clarify
whether there is a bug in xkb-data or not.
Based on the information available in this bug report, I'm confident that
GLib is now doing the right thing, so this is not a GLib bug.
> Français
> Français Azerty
> don't fire dead keys on the first row of keys
> but
> Français Azerty (AFNOR)
> does. Strange...
If you think this is a regression when compared with older versions of
Debian, then the xkb-data maintainers will need to know the answer to
this question:
What was the most recent date when your keyboard had the behaviour
that you expected, and what version of Debian were you running at
that time?
Thanks,
smcv