Bug#647750: linux-source-2.6.32: keyboard.c: 8 bits diacritics are displayed as a 7 bits representation after a space
Package: linux-source-2.6.32
Version: 2.6.32-35squeeze2
Severity: normal
Diacritics, that are 8 bits (accent (´, 0xB4), dieresis (¨,
0xA8), cedilla (¸, 0xB8)), are displayed as their 7 bits
representation ('",) if a space is input after them.
In the subroutine "handle_diacr" in "drivers/char/keyboard.c" is:
if ((d & ~0xff) == BRL_UC_ROW) {
if ((ch & ~0xff) == BRL_UC_ROW)
return d | ch;
} else {
for (i = 0; i < accent_table_size; i++)
if (accent_table[i].diacr == d && accent_table[i].base == ch)
return accent_table[i].result;
}
if (ch == ' ' || ch == (BRL_UC_ROW|0) || ch == d)
return d;
Thus after space, the "d" (in the accent_table; compose part)
is returned instead of the real (8 bit) character.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-35squeeze2
Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.32 depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.32 recommends:
ii gcc 4:4.4.5-1 The GNU C compiler
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.32 suggests:
pn kernel-package <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5-dev [ncurses- 5.7+20100313-5 developer's libraries and docs for
pn libqt3-mt-dev <none> (no description available)
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Bjarni I. Gislason
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