Bug#498915: xkb-data: Non-breakable spaces in Russian layout

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 15:05:17 +0100, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:

> I have a Russian keyboard layout enable on an en_IE.UTF-8 locale. Here
> are the lines from /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> 
> Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
> Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
> Option		"XkbLayout"	"ie,ru"
> Option		"XKbOptions"	"grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
> 
> All spaces entered in the Russian layout are non-breakable spaces; this is
> seen in applications like iceweasel and openoffice.org . In the Irish layout
> spaces are normal.
> 
> I have found a workaround; adding ",nbsp:none" to the XKbOptions line allows
> me to work as normal.
> 
> Filing bug against xkb-data as this is probably a keyboard layout data issue.
> In particular, I suspect it has to do with the following line in
> /usr.share.x11.xkb.symbols:
> 
> key.type[group1]="TWO_LEVEL";
> 
Thanks for your report.  If this still happens with xkb-data 1.5, could
you run 'xkbcomp -xkb :0 out.xkb' and send the resulting out.xkb file to
this bug?

Thanks,
Julien