XPost: linux.debian.maint.x   
   From: sthibault@debian.org   
      
   Control: reassign -1 xkeyboard-config   
      
   Hello,   
      
   Reassigning to xkeyboard-config, where this happens   
      
   Samuel   
      
   Wookey, le jeu. 05 févr. 2009 16:39:00 +0000, a ecrit:   
   > Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd   
   > Version: 1:1.3.1-1   
   > Severity: important   
   > Tags: l10n   
   >   
   > I'm not sure if this is the correct package to file this bug against. Please   
   > reassign if required.   
   >   
   > If you set xorg.conf to have more than one keyboard layout:   
   >     Option          "XkbLayout"     "it,gb"   
   >     OPtion          "XkbOptions"    "grp:menu_toggle"   
   > (togglable with alt-menu key)   
   >   
   > then the italian keyboard works just fine, but If I toggle to the gb keyboard   
   > then only the symbol keys like @?<>,.-_=+[{]}\| work OK ' all the letter keys   
   > produce strange characters :   
   > @??e?????????????????   
   > ????????????j????   
   > ????????????n??   
   > (the above should be:   
   > qwertyuiop   
   > asdfghjkl   
   > zxcvbnm   
   > )   
   >   
   > Toggling back and forth this is entirely repeatable. It doesn't seem to   
   matter   
   > what the 1st layout is - the 2nd layout is always broken.   
   >   
   > Interestingly I can produce the same problem a different way using the gnome   
   > keyboard config utility. I installed it as a UK (british) machine with UK   
   > keyboard layout and en_GB.UTF-8 default locale. Setting a different   
   > layout/language there works fine   
   > (I tested with Finnish) until you reboot. Then the main layout is broken in   
   > the same way  Setting back to en works fine. Selecting Finnish again remains   
   > broken. Setting it to any new layout works until after a reboot when it is   
   > broken again.   
   >   
   > This seems to be a serious problem for anyone wanting to have a machine with   
   > a non-UK keyboard layout.   
   >   
   > -- System Information:   
   > Debian Release: 5.0   
   >   APT prefers testing   
   >   APT policy: (500, 'testing')   
   > Architecture: i386 (i686)   
   >   
   > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)   
   > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)   
   > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash   
   >   
   > Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-kbd depends on:   
   > ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries   
   > ii  xserver-xorg-core             2:1.4.2-10 Xorg X server - core server   
   >   
   > xserver-xorg-input-kbd recommends no packages.   
   >   
   > xserver-xorg-input-kbd suggests no packages.   
   >   
   > -- no debconf information   
   >   
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