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Sygne

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Registered: 2013-11-19

Posts: 3

compose '^' problem in console

Hello alls,

A few weeks ago, after an update, my console keymaps stopped working correctly: the compose '^' + 'e' does print a 'ę' instead of the expected 'ê'.

I tried different french keymaps: they all have that problem. I also tried different locale configuration, without any effects.

Note that in the bepo keymap a single key is enough to print an 'ê', this works correctly, alas, on the same keymap, the '^' + 'e' does not...

Any help is welcome.

$ grep ê /usr/share/kbp/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin9.map
compose '^' 'e' to 'ê'

$ locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8

$ kbd_mode
The keyboard is in Unicode (UTF-8) mode

$ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: fr-latin9
      X11 Layout: n/a

Thanks in advance !

satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 538

Re: compose '^' problem in console

Hello alls,

A few weeks ago, after an update, my console keymaps stopped working correctly: the compose '^' + 'e' does print a 'ę' instead of the expected 'ê'.

What does your /etc/vconsole.conf contain?

Sygne

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Registered: 2013-11-19

Posts: 3

Re: compose '^' problem in console

You're right, I should have write that too:

KEYMAP=fr-latin9
FONT=myfont

myfont is a small modification of the default font which print correctly the 'ê' when it is correctly entered (from a file written from  x for example). The font is definitely not the problem here.

nfortier

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 49

Re: compose '^' problem in console

I had a somewhat similar problem of not having access to the dead cedilla (ç) on my us-international layout, but this was using a console under X11 and in gtk applications. This
forum post helped me. Good luck!

Sygne

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Registered: 2013-11-19

Posts: 3

Re: compose '^' problem in console

I looked at your link, but there's no help for me there...