Thanks for forwarding !
> The problem: keyboard and console are in Unicode mode, using
>
> echo -ne '\e%G' ; kbd_mode -u
>
> Now the german umlauts (with codes >= 0x80) don't appear anymore. The reason
> is that while the console now expects UCS2, the keyboard still emits
> single-byte Latin-1 codes, which are invalid in UCS2, so nothing is displayed.
IIRC, I have listed this (in my TODO file for console-tools) in the
evolutions that should be done one day on the kernel. I believe your
fix does the right job for fixing this little problem.
> I realize that if the translation tables contain values < 0xf000, they are
> sent using the UCS2 encoding (always...), even though I haven't found out how
> to set them so with loadkeys.
> (This is on an i586 PC with german keyboard layout loaded)
Did you infer that from the code ? It's been some time I didn't
browse it really (2.0.x). Something I remember in these versions is
that we cannot hope to enter keycodes > 0xf000 because of a trupidly
bad design in the keyboard driver, that IIRC is not trivial to fix :(
> I don't want to send a patch because the ``bug'' is so obvious (to me ;-) that
> the current behaviour could actually be the correct one.
>
> Any opinions?
I'd say: try to get in that before 2.2 is out !
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