Bug#514245: xserver-xorg-input-kbd: international layout switching produces broken layouts

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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