Re: [kbd] Plus instead acute accent

"Daniel G." <[email protected]> Sat, 30 May 2020 17:15:08 +0200
Newsgroups	dev.linux.lists.kbd
Message-ID	<20200530151508.GA30525@i7>
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 02:41:25PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 02:09:47PM +0200, Daniel G. wrote:
> > > > If you try to load de Spanish keymap with:
> > > > $ loadkeys es
> > > > 
> > > > It takes you "somewhere" with a Spanish misconfigured map that shows the ñ
> > > > correctly, but with some issues with the acute accents, which appear, for
> > > > example, as +a instead of a-acute. I have no idea of which "default" map
> > > > could it be.
> > > > 
> > > > But if you put the absolute path to the map, the problem is fixed.
> > > > $ loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/es.map.gz
> > > 
> > > Do you have /usr/share/keymaps/i386/olpc/es.map.gz ?
> > > If yes, can you try the following?
> > > 
> > > $ loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/olpc/es.map.gz
> > 
> > I've tried it. And it loads the incorrect map, I mean, one showing +a instead
> > of a-cute.
> 
> Just as I suspected.
> 
> > I have just removed that map from the system, and 'loadkeys es' works
> > properly, loading a correct Spanish map. It seems we have found the
> > "culprit".
> > 
> > As an immediate solution it is easy to remove /olpc/es.map.gz to make it
> > work as expected with 'loadkeys es'.
> 
> or you could use:
> 
> $ loadkeys qwerty/es

Undoubtedly, a much better solution.
> 
> > But it could be interesting to know why the default path to the Spanish
> > keymap goes to /olpc instead of /qwerty.  I've tried to study the code of
> > loadkeys, but sorry, it is out of my range :-(. 
> 
> This is because loadkeys recursively searches for keymap in
> the /usr/share/keymaps/*/* subdirectories (on your system). Directory
> names are sorted alphabetically.
> 
> keymaps/i386/azerty
> keymaps/i386/bepo
> keymaps/i386/carpalx
> keymaps/i386/colemak
> keymaps/i386/dvorak
> keymaps/i386/fgGIod
> keymaps/i386/neo
> keymaps/i386/olpc
> keymaps/i386/qwerty
> keymaps/i386/qwertz
> 
> as you can see /olpc goes before /qwerty.

Thank you for the explanation.
> 
> -- 
> Rgrds, legion
> 



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