tags 386385 + pending
thanks
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:07:02AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.8-12
Severity: normal
This is a 'simultaneous bug' in xkb-data and libx11-data.
In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, the keys generating the Classical Greek
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 16:23 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Hmm.. this is a keyboard thing, not a display thing, so how could
a URL help? xev can be used to verify the fix, of course.
The bug itself has been reported already in Ubuntu and SuSE,
though not in Debian, e.g.
Drew Parsons wrote:
I think it would be helpful to have a test case to confirm the
wrong behaviour and to verify the fix. Is a url available?
Hmm.. this is a keyboard thing, not a display thing, so how could
a URL help? xev can be used to verify the fix, of course.
The bug itself has been
If this roadmap makes sense to you, can you please file bug
reports with patches against libx11-data for steps 1 and 2?
This is much easier to perform by people reading Greek ;-)
I am neither a Greek, nor a real expert in Ancient Greek, so I
want to be very careful. I am just interested
Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.8-12
Severity: normal
This is a 'simultaneous bug' in xkb-data and libx11-data.
In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, the keys generating the Classical Greek
'breathing' signs are defined as follows
key AC10 { [ dead_acute, dead_horn ] };
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:07:02AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
This is a 'simultaneous bug' in xkb-data and libx11-data.
In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, the keys generating the Classical Greek
'breathing' signs are defined as follows
key AC10 { [ dead_acute,
Daniel Stone wrote:
Er, could dead_horn and dead_ognek sequences not just be added
to en_US?
Of course they could. But that would be perpetuating a kludge.
dead_horn and dead_ogonek were chosen by the original Greek
designer *) because they do not occur in the Greek language, so he
thought
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:31:28PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Daniel Stone wrote:
Er, could dead_horn and dead_ognek sequences not just be added
to en_US?
Of course they could. But that would be perpetuating a kludge.
dead_horn and dead_ogonek were chosen by the original Greek
Daniel Stone wrote:
Actually, at the time the Greek support was written, that
wasn't true.
I did not know that. That explains a lot.
Okay, thanks for your analysis and pointing out that I was
wrong. :) Your suggested fix seems fine to me.
Well, as long as it's fixed, it's fine! :)
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:07:02AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.8-12
Severity: normal
This is a 'simultaneous bug' in xkb-data and libx11-data.
In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, the keys generating the Classical Greek
'breathing' signs are defined as
Denis Barbier wrote:
But we cannot be sure that they will enter testing together, so adding a
transition plan is desired. Here is mine:
1. Rewrite /usr/share/X11/locale/el_GR.UTF-8/Compose to include
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose (as in pt_BR.UTF-8) and
only add
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