• Bug#266094: console-data: no german "Umlaute" in console and xterm (1/2

    From Martin Hans@1:229/2 to All on Mon Aug 16 20:00:12 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: console-data
    Version: 2002.12.04dbs-44
    Severity: normal
    Tags: l10n

    Hi,

    during Sarge installation I selected the keymap
    "qwertz/german/standard/keymap: latin1 - no dead keys".
    After the installation has finished I had no german "Umlaute" in the console and in xterms. Typing a "Umlaut" just dows nothing. Rebooting several times and doing "dpkg-reconfigure console-data" with selecting the keymap again changed nothing.
    The german "Umlaute" work in applications like vi, Mozilla and in most KDE applications, but not in the KDE konsole.

    Cheers

    Martin

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages console-data depends on:
    ii console-common 0.7.47 Basic infrastructure for text cons ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy

    -- debconf information:
    * console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/standard/keymap: latin1 - no dead keys
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/layout:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/portugese/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/slovak/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/french/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/hungarian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/variant:
    * console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/variant: Standard
    console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/apple_usb/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovene/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/french/with_euro__latin_9_/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovak/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/spanish/apple_usb/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/powerpcadb:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/romanian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/ignored:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/wang/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/cp_1251_coding/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/fggiod/layout:
    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/ukrainian/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/polish/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: de-latin1-nodeadkeys
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/danish/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/byelorussian/standard/keymap:
    * console-data/keymap/qwertz/layout: German
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/dutch/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/portugese/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/serbian/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/dutch/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/pc_110/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/template/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/variant:
    * console-data/keymap/policy: Select keymap from arch list
    console-data/bootmap-md5sum: a8ed2543dee67346cb80e9b98e02cfa9
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/greek/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/slovak/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/french/pc_keyboard__non-us_102_keys_/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/template/layout:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/layout:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/french/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/variant:
    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: qwertz
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/br-latin1/keymap:
    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:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/ukrainian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/icelandic/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/apple_usb/keymap:
    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/dvorak/unknown/right_single-handed/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/apple_usb/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/serbian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/croat/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/english/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/template/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/greek/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/qwerty/icelandic/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/danish/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/variant:
    console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/variant:
    console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/standard/keymap:
    console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/standard/keymap:

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  • From Christian Perrier@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 10:00:15 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Quoting Martin Hans ([email protected]):

    The german "Umlaute" work in applications like vi, Mozilla and in most KDE applications, but not in the KDE konsole.


    If the problem happens with konsole, this is not a console-data
    problem as console-data only handles input in Linux text consoles.

    However, your BR seems to suggest the problem also happens on text consoles.

    What happens in virtual consoles?




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  • From Martin Hans@1:229/2 to Christian Perrier on Wed Aug 18 10:30:16 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Hi,

    sorry for my unclear bug report.
    I reported it to console-data, because it happens to my virtual consoles.
    I thought console-data sets up the virtual console. I apologize if this
    is wrong. I only mentioned the other consoles, because it happened to them, too.

    Cheers

    Martin

    On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:33, Christian Perrier wrote:
    Quoting Martin Hans ([email protected]):
    The german "Umlaute" work in applications like vi, Mozilla and in most
    KDE applications, but not in the KDE konsole.

    If the problem happens with konsole, this is not a console-data
    problem as console-data only handles input in Linux text consoles.

    However, your BR seems to suggest the problem also happens on text
    consoles.

    What happens in virtual consoles?


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  • From Christian Perrier@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 10:50:09 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Quoting Martin Hans ([email protected]):
    Hi,

    sorry for my unclear bug report.
    I reported it to console-data, because it happens to my virtual consoles.
    I thought console-data sets up the virtual console. I apologize if this
    is wrong. I only mentioned the other consoles, because it happened to them, too.

    Of course, console-data sets the virtual consoles (if we're talking
    about the same thing....those you reach with Alt-Fn...or Ctrl-Alt-Fn
    from X)




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  • From Martin Hans@1:229/2 to Christian Perrier on Wed Aug 18 11:00:14 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:20, Christian Perrier wrote:
    Quoting Martin Hans ([email protected]):
    Hi,

    sorry for my unclear bug report.
    I reported it to console-data, because it happens to my virtual consoles.
    I thought console-data sets up the virtual console. I apologize if this
    is wrong. I only mentioned the other consoles, because it happened to
    them, too.

    Of course, console-data sets the virtual consoles (if we're talking
    about the same thing....those you reach with Alt-Fn...or Ctrl-Alt-Fn
    from X)

    Hi,

    yes, we mean the same thing with virtual console :-)

    Cheers

    Martin


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