Version: 2:1.1.4-1 forcemerge 436923 484062 kthxbye
On Tue, Oct 9, 2007 at 15:38:32 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Brice Goglin wrote: > > > I have forwarded this bug on the upstream bugzilla at the URL > > above. Feel free to add any comments there if you think it > > could help. I know nothing about Greek accents and I don't have > > a Greek polytonic keyboard, so I won't be able to help much :) > > At the moment in Sid, Greek breathing signs *again* do not work. > > 1- First some Greek developers called the breathing signs > (falsely) "dead_horn" and "dead_ogonek" -- this was an ugly > hack (and acknowledged as such by said developers) which worked > fine for Greeks, but for nobody else on the planet (i.e. not > for anyone working in a non-Greek locale). > > 2- Then "dead_horn" and "dead_ogonek" (which are entirely > non-Greek keysyms, just borrowed by said Greek developers for > the occasion) were replaced by U0313 and U0314 respectively. We > enjoyed a short period in which Greek breathing signs could > actually be typed by anyone in the whole wide world. > > 3- Then somebody thought it was a bright idea to again change the > definitions of the breathing signs. In the Compose file U0313 > was changed into U10000313. What could the poor user do? Make > the same change in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, of course. > Debian did not do it, so the user had to do it by hand. > > 4- But in the latest Sid, the Compose file has reverted to > definitions like U0313, while /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr has > reverted to the use of "dead_horn" and "dead_ogonek". So we are > literally back to #1. Sigh.. > > TIMETE DANAOS ET DONA FERENTES! > > When will we ever get a stable system for entering the Greek > breathing signs? It is not rocket science. It only requires that > the people maintaining the keyboard files agree with the people > maintaining the Compose file. I suspect that there are two > different groups of Greeks working on those files, independently > of one another. This has to stop. Somebody has to knock some heads > together. > It seems that the Compose file was fixed upstream in libX11 1.1.4. Can you install the libx11-data package from experimental to verify? I hope to be able to upload an updated version to sid in the near future. Cheers, Julien -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
