Debian Bug report logs - #249875
console-data: Characters depending on AltGr in no-latin1 does not work on keyboard.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Thingelstad <harald@skolelinux.no>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: console-data: Characters depending on AltGr in no-latin1 does not work on keyboard.

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:37:32 +0200

Package: console-data
Version: 2002.12.04dbs-39
Severity: important
Tags: l10n

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A number of characters on norwegian (and I suppose, a lot of charsets
using "extended" variants of the latin alphabet) uses AltGr combined
with
different other keys to define less used characters. This includes:
AltGr + 2: "at" character, as in email addresses
AltGr + 3: Pound sign, as in English currency
AltGr + 4: Dollar sign
AltGr + 7: Left curlybrace
AltGr + 8: Left square brace
AltGr + 9: Right square brace
AltGr + 0: Right curlybrace
AltGr + e: Euro sign
AltGr + z: Left double angle bracket, standard sign for citations

And so on..

This might not be a normal techniquie on english keyboards because they
don't have to squeeze in extra characters, but has been used nearly as
long as keyboards have existed for us. It is a long established
standard.
 
These do not work in Sarge (or Sid, I suppose) and have been failing
(for me) since early 2004.
Problem seems to be triggered by upgrade of console-* packages, but
regenerating data in locales (or one of the many other things tried)
have been working until now. Not anymore.
Not in text console, gnome or kde. Independent of charset, might it be
iso8859-1 or UTF8.
Might be this machine only, but any relevant fiddling I do is only to
 
set standard settings again. And through so many upgrades and resets I'm
really beginning to doubt it.
Might other functionality override the needed characters from keyboard?
ArgGr + any number sets a (arg <number>) in bash. In gnome-terminal it
switches screens.
But it also affects functionality. Pressing <dollar sign> in Vim works
as an escape key, nothing more.

For the sake of completeness, the list down there says:
* console-data/keymap/policy: Don't touch keymap

But after a fresh upgrade of Sarge and before upgrading console-commmon
and console-data to Sid (no need for console-tools), this was set to
"select keymap from arch list" with
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
Never set this myself, so if this is a problem, there's need for some
changes to the default options.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-686
Locale: LANG=no_NO, LC_CTYPE=no_NO

Versions of packages console-data depends on:
ii  console-common                0.7.42     Basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  debconf                       1.4.25     Debian configuration management sy

- -- debconf information:
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/german/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/template/layout: 
* console-data/keymap/qwerty/layout: Norwegian
  console-data/keymap/azerty/layout: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/portugese/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/apple_usb/keymap: 
* console-data/keymap/family: qwerty
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/br-latin1/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/french/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/layout: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/romanian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/norwegian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/slovak/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/french/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/hungarian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovene/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/ukrainian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/with_euro__latin_9_/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/icelandic/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovak/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/czech/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/latin_american/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/spanish/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/right_single-handed/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/powerpcadb: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/serbian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/croat/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/english/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/template/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/romanian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/greek/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/polish/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/left_single-handed/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/turkish/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/ignored: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/icelandic/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/wang/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/danish/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/cp_1251_coding/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/fggiod/layout: 
* console-data/keymap/qwerty/norwegian/standard/keymap: latin1
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovak/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/czech/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/hungarian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/polish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/ukrainian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/spanish/variant: 
* console-data/keymap/full: no-latin1
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/italian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/turkish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/danish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/byelorussian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/layout: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/dutch/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/portugese/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/spanish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/old__obsolete_/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/serbian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/dutch/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/croat/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/byelorussian/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/pc_110/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/template/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/latin_american/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/variant: 
* console-data/keymap/policy: Don't touch keymap
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/apple_usb/keymap: 
  console-data/bootmap-md5sum: d879d3567fb3412eada802df7d88610d
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/greek/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovene/variant: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/slovak/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/italian/standard/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/same_as_x11__latin_1_/keymap: 
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/pc_keyboard__non-us_102_keys_/keymap: 

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Message #10 received at 249875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Alastair McKinstry" <mckinstry@computer.org>

To: 249875@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 249875-submitter@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: #249875: cannot reproduce bug

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:44:40 +0100

tags 249875 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.
I cannot reproduce this bug;  I had suspected it might be due
to other issues, but the no-latin1 keymap looks fine to me now;
can you please confirm that you still see this problem?
I believe it is a local configuration issue.

Regards
Alastair McKinstry

Message #20 received at 249875-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>

To: 249875-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing

Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:32:08 +0100

I am closing this bug as it is unreproducible.

A number of issues in Debian/sid that have since been fixed may have
been responsible.

Regards
Alastair

Message #25 received at 249875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Thingelstad <harald@skolelinux.no>

To: 249875@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#249875 acknowledged by developer (closing)

Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:26:51 +0200

> I am closing this bug as it is unreproducible.
> 
> A number of issues in Debian/sid that have since been fixed may have
> been responsible.
> 
> Regards
> Alastair

Indeed. Has been a problem for quite some time, but resolved itself well
in time for Sarge.
Fixed upstream perhaps?

How to keep track of bugs of bugs submitted?
Have a guest-user at alioth, but that's all.

Harald

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