#1010160 x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap -layout cz_qwerty loads layout which fails with a particular dead-key combination #1010160
- Package:
- xkeyboard-config
- Source:
- xkeyboard-config
- Submitter:
- Pavel Sanda
- Date:
- 2022-04-25 15:21:05 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
- Tags:
Dear Maintainer, for keyboard configuration I use the following command on my system: setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout "us,cz_qwerty" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" The cz_qwerty layout works mostly fine, except one singular failure: dead-key ˇ (caron) + u (the same for upper-case variant ˇ+U). I am afraid non-native prepared/"fixed" this layout, because the layout logically ends up with caron+u, which is non-existent in czech while on all czech keyboards you end up with overring+u (ů, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(diacritic) ). It renders this layout unusable for continuous czech writing, can it get fixed? (Or at leat can you give me a hint where to fix this, I expect this could be two-liner change in some kayboard-layout files...)
Control: reassign -1 xkeyboard-config Control: tag -1 upstream The cz_qwerty layout is defined here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/blob/ade97960d7bfc7fde8d08e9fa5584e7c3c51c23b/symbols/cz#L81 Key combinations including those with dead keys live in Xlib though: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre Reassigning to xkeyboard-config for now, let us know if you end up reporting/fixing this upstream. Cheers, Julien
Thanks. I figured out that this is actually minor problem as I can avoid dead caron altogether, as caps lock works with ů (for some reason I was mislead by seing the character " on top of the key ů, but of course caps lock is not identical to the shift key). So although I still consider this bug in the layout, its fairly minor and if we close this as wontfix, it's not big deal. Pavel