http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2974
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-04 22:40 ------- Kaixo! On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:12:06PM -0500, lasse wrote: not "en_DK.UTF-8" but "en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: en_DK.UTF-8" (the syntax is: "directory/XLC_LOCALE: localename") Because "en_US.UTF-8" is defined in that file by a line: en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8 (what matters is that the locale name in the right column matches your LC_CTYPE value; and that the file path in the left column exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ ) There is no such thing as "danish keys". >From computer point of vue there are only charset encodings. "en_DK.UTF-8" uses UTF-8, so it can handle all letters needed by Danish language. However, as XFree86 doesn't know about "en_DK.UTF-8", then it defaults the charset encoding to "us-ascii", that is, 7nit and no accent at all. The keyboard still sends the codes of the accented letters when pressing the keys of the danbish keyboard, but as XFree86 decided it will work in 7bit us-ascii, it simply ignores everything the keyboard sends unless it is pure ascii. By adding a line: en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: en_DK.UTF-8 You tell XFree86 that for locale "en_DK.UTF-8" it has to look at the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE file, the file exist (in fact it is used by almost all UTF-8 locales); that is, it is "known" by XFree86, and it will happily accept what the keyboard sends. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: ASSIGNED creation_date: description: When i install Cooker, i choose Norwegian Keyboard layout. But later, when the settings are summarised, the setting appear to be some kind of English or US keyboard. I try to change to norwegian keyboard again, but my changes are always ignored. Workaround: After the installtaion, when the system is running, you can change keyboard layout in drakconf and then configure your X server again. And you have to pray to God that your root password is not corrupt. Curcomstances: I did an installation of current Cooker yesterday friday 7th, from ftp: //sunsite.uio.no/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586. The installation was done from scratch on two new PCs. I chose English Language and norwegian keyboard. The installation was done in text modus. The graphical modus did not work: A png file was not found, and in graphical modus, the installation program refused to install the packages.
