Re: [PATCH] Fix autodetection of UNICODE keymap

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar-JGs/UdohzUI@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thursday 12 of August 2010 16:28:28 Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 08/12/2010 01:48 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:08:25 +0200 письмо от Harald 
Hoyer<harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>:
> >> On 08/12/2010 01:05 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> >>> On 08/11/2010 07:47 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> >>>> +
> >>>> + # KEYTABLE is a bit special - it defines base keymap name and
> >>>> UNICODE + # determines whether non-UNICODE or UNICODE version
> >>>> is used +
> >>>> + if [[ ${KEYTABLE} ]]; then
> >>>> + if [[ ${UNICODE} == 1 ]]; then
> >>>> + [[ ${KEYTABLE} =~ .*\.uni.* ]] ||
> >>>> KEYTABLE=${KEYTABLE%.map*}.uni + fi
> >>>> +
> >>>> + KEYMAP=${KEYTABLE}
> >>>> + fi
> >>> 
> >>> On Fedora we would end with:
> >>> 
> >>> KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
> >>> 
> >>> at
> >>> 
> >>> KEYMAP="de-latin1-nodeadkeys.uni"
> >>> 
> >>> which does not exist.
> > 
> > Could you send me your /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (or where these are
> > defined)?
> > 
> > So, in other words - you have UTF-8 environment but load
> > non-UNICODE keyboard?
> > 
> >> Fedora's console_init calls "loadkeys" with "-u", if its LANG has
> >> .UTF-8
> > 
> > It does not help here, unfortunately. Which version of initscripts
> > is it? --
> 
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=blob;f=src/conso
> le_init.c
> 
> It's been like this forever...
> 
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=history;f=src/co
> nsole_init.c
> 
> # loadkeys -u de-latin1-nodeadkeys
> Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz

OK, so

- KEYTABLE handling is Mandriva specific patch. Sorry for confusion
- loadkeys -u fails misereably for all Russian keymaps that use 8 bit 
character set. This is generic kbd issue that is not easy to fix (in 
short - loadkeys treats all single byte characters as latin1. So it 
converts into UNICODE just fine - but not Russian UNICODE, rather Latin 
one ...). 

This means there is no way to have single Russian keymap that works 
either in 8 bit or UTF-8 character sets. But Mandriva tools use single 
KEYTABLE for defining keyboard layout ...

I think I just leave it as distro-specific patch for now then.

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