Bug#324647: /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pl: strange characters mapping with Polish keymap (pl)

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:09:50AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> Package: xlibs
> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5
> Severity: minor
> File: /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pl
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> Polish language doesn't use alt+w, alt+q and alt+f shortcuts cause we don't
> have language specific characters there, so I think these combinations
> shoulnd't output anything, but they do:
> 
> alt+w - ł
> alt+q - @
> alt+f - đ
> alt+j - j
> 
> alt+w outputs the same character as alt+l.
> 
> I asked some friends using Gentoo and the same problem exists there, so
> it's not Debian specific.
> 
> Probably Polish keymap is wrong, but looking at /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pl
> I can't see anything related to these keys.

This is because you are looking at the wrong file, see
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pl instead.  This file loads
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/latin which contains these
definitions.  But I do not see why displaying these
symbols is a problem for you.

Denis