From: "Daniel G." <audobra@gmail.com>
To: kbd@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [kbd] Plus instead acute accent
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 17:15:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200530151508.GA30525@i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200530124125.fcthljmihgk4hpnp@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6>
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On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 02:41:25PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 02:09:47PM +0200, Daniel G. wrote:
> > > > If you try to load de Spanish keymap with:
> > > > $ loadkeys es
> > > >
> > > > It takes you "somewhere" with a Spanish misconfigured map that shows the ñ
> > > > correctly, but with some issues with the acute accents, which appear, for
> > > > example, as +a instead of a-acute. I have no idea of which "default" map
> > > > could it be.
> > > >
> > > > But if you put the absolute path to the map, the problem is fixed.
> > > > $ loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/es.map.gz
> > >
> > > Do you have /usr/share/keymaps/i386/olpc/es.map.gz ?
> > > If yes, can you try the following?
> > >
> > > $ loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/olpc/es.map.gz
> >
> > I've tried it. And it loads the incorrect map, I mean, one showing +a instead
> > of a-cute.
>
> Just as I suspected.
>
> > I have just removed that map from the system, and 'loadkeys es' works
> > properly, loading a correct Spanish map. It seems we have found the
> > "culprit".
> >
> > As an immediate solution it is easy to remove /olpc/es.map.gz to make it
> > work as expected with 'loadkeys es'.
>
> or you could use:
>
> $ loadkeys qwerty/es
Undoubtedly, a much better solution.
>
> > But it could be interesting to know why the default path to the Spanish
> > keymap goes to /olpc instead of /qwerty. I've tried to study the code of
> > loadkeys, but sorry, it is out of my range :-(.
>
> This is because loadkeys recursively searches for keymap in
> the /usr/share/keymaps/*/* subdirectories (on your system). Directory
> names are sorted alphabetically.
>
> keymaps/i386/azerty
> keymaps/i386/bepo
> keymaps/i386/carpalx
> keymaps/i386/colemak
> keymaps/i386/dvorak
> keymaps/i386/fgGIod
> keymaps/i386/neo
> keymaps/i386/olpc
> keymaps/i386/qwerty
> keymaps/i386/qwertz
>
> as you can see /olpc goes before /qwerty.
Thank you for the explanation.
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-16 16:20 [kbd] Plus instead acute accent DGSJ
2020-05-28 21:34 ` Alexey Gladkov
2020-05-28 22:06 ` Ken Moffat
2020-05-30 9:27 ` Daniel G.
2020-05-30 10:13 ` Alexey Gladkov
2020-05-30 12:09 ` Daniel G.
2020-05-30 12:41 ` Alexey Gladkov
2020-05-30 15:15 ` Daniel G. [this message]
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