Bug#1010160: x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap -layout cz_qwerty loads layout which fails with a particular dead-key combination
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 04:25:04PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 03:53:22PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > for keyboard configuration I use the following command on my system:
> > setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout "us,cz_qwerty" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
> >
> > The cz_qwerty layout works mostly fine, except one singular failure:
> > dead-key ˇ (caron) + u (the same for upper-case variant ˇ+U).
> >
> > I am afraid non-native prepared/"fixed" this layout, because the layout
> > logically ends up with caron+u, which is non-existent in czech while
> > on all czech keyboards you end up with overring+u (ů, see
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(diacritic) ).
> >
> > It renders this layout unusable for continuous czech writing, can it get fixed?
> > (Or at leat can you give me a hint where to fix this, I expect this could
> > be two-liner change in some kayboard-layout files...)
> >
> The cz_qwerty layout is defined here:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/blob/ade97960d7bfc7fde8d08e9fa5584e7c3c51c23b/symbols/cz#L81
>
> Key combinations including those with dead keys live in Xlib though:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
>
> Reassigning to xkeyboard-config for now, let us know if you end up
> reporting/fixing this upstream.
Thanks. I figured out that this is actually minor problem as I can avoid dead caron
altogether, as caps lock works with ů (for some reason I was mislead by
seing the character " on top of the key ů, but of course caps lock is not
identical to the shift key).
So although I still consider this bug in the layout, its fairly minor
and if we close this as wontfix, it's not big deal.
Pavel
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