#5373 NORM Update.: Some combining characters work in the console keyboard, some don't.

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#5373: Some combining characters work in the console keyboard, some don't.
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  Reporter:  cscott  |       Owner:  bernie  
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  distro  |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by chihyu):

 The 'es' keyboard layout doesn't seem to work correctly, either. [[BR]]
 The machine I tested with was build 653, "BR15". And
 /etc/sysconfig/keyboard reads: [[BR]]

 KEYTABLE="es" [[BR]]
 XKB_MODEL="olpc" [[BR]]
 XKB_LAYOUT="es" [[BR]]
 XKB_VARIANT="olpc" [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 The problems are as follows: [[BR]]

 == in the console ==

 1. character ] becomes c with cedilla [[BR]]
 2. shift ] becomes C with cedilla [[BR]]
 3. alt gr ] becomes } [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 4. + becomes nothing [[BR]]
 5. shift + becomes ' , and if one types this combination continuously, the
 ' only appears once [[BR]]
 6. alt gr + becomes { [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 7. ' becomes nothing [[BR]]
 8. shift ' becomes the grave accent , and if one types this combination
 continuously, the grave accent only appears once [[BR]]
 9. alt gr ' becomes [ [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 10. [ becomes + [[BR]]
 11. shift [ becomes * [[BR]]
 12. alt gr [ becomes ] [[BR]]


 == in the gui ==

 1. alt gr ] is still ] [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 2. in order for alt gr + to become ~, one has to type the combination
 twice [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 3. in order for ' to appear, one has to press the key twice [[BR]]
 4. in order for shift ' to become the umlaut sign (two dots on the top of
 a character), one has to press the key twice [[BR]]
 5. alt gr ' is still ' [[BR]]



 Replying to [ticket:5373 cscott]:
 > The 'us' keyboard layout doesn't seem to have any functional compose
 characters, but the 'es' one has at least one: the "two dots above" key --
 which is not accessed by 'alt-gr'.  So it seems that it is possible to do
 proper compose key mappings for the console keyboard, but that it has not
 yet been done.  We should fix this.

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