kbd bug
Alexander E. Patrakov
patrakov at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 10:37:17 MST 2008
I wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
>> wget
>> ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/links-2.1pre33-utf8.diff.bz2
>> # <ESC> -> Setup -> Terminal Options and check the "UTF-8 I/O" box
>> # <ESC> -> Setup -> Character Set and choose KOI8-RU
>> # and while you have links running
>> g
>> www.in.gr
>> # <ESC> -> Setup -> Character Set and choose "ISO 8859-7"
>> ------>%----
>>
>> Also entering text in web forms seems to work with an exception (I
>> can't get an "μ", I take "υ" instead in VT mode).
>
> Bug in one of the programs called by the "console" bootscript, because
> the key doesn't produce the correct character even in bash command line.
This is a bug in loadkeys. It looks like the definition of "mu" is taken from
the ISO-8859-1 table by "loadkeys -u". What should we do in the console script
to avoid triggering of this bug? Or maybe make a kbd patch that adds a pre-made
Greek UTF-8 keymap with "U+03bc" instead of "mu"?
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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