Re: [kbd] Plus instead acute accent

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:20:09PM +0200, DGSJ wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm working in a customized Linux distro for Raspberry Pi 3 B+, in 64-bit
> architecture, with a Raspbrerry kernel, version 5.6.4-v8+.
> 
> I'm using to control the terminal kbd-2.2.0, cross-compiled from source, 
> and Graft as package manager.
> 
> I'm having a problem with Spanish acute accents in vowels. If you try to
> write an acute accented vowel, for example ?, this is what yo see in the
> screen:

Can you tell the keycode of what you pressed ?
You can get it using the showkey utility.

> $> +a
> 
> It is to say, the dead key is not working, and moreover, instead of the
> acute accent, the plus symbol is displayed.
> 
> There are other symptoms of the misconfiguration:
> key    ??{    displays    +*~
> key    `^[    displays    '(circumflex s)?
> key    +*     displays    [{
> key    }?     displays    ]}
> 
> Fortunately ? and ? work fine ;-), and the rest of the keys are ok.
> 
> Here are some details about the console and the keyboard.
> 
> - Console.
> It is an interactive login shell invoked after boot with agetty, I mean
> it is not a GUI console. The framebuffer supports graphics. 
> 
> Regarding the environmental and console variables:
> LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-15@euro
> TERM=Linux
> FONT=lat0-16
> 
> - Keyboard
> According to 'kbd_mode' the keyboard is set in Unicode mode (UTF-8), the map
> is es ('loadkeys es').

There are at least two es keymaps:

keymaps/i386/olpc/es.map
keymaps/i386/qwerty/es.map

which one are you using?

> Well, I think I've missed something to make the accents or the deadkeys work.

However, I do not see deadkeys in both es keymaps.

> Any help will be welcomed. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
> 
> -------------------------
> Daniel Guti?rrez
> 

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