https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User chrubis@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c1 Cyril Hrubis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chrubis@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com --- Comment #1 from Cyril Hrubis 2008-03-06 08:35:52 MST --- Looks like simple cat(ing) utf8 text on console doesn't work either, browsing html pages with non ascii characters gives the the same results. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User lmichnovic@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c3 --- Comment #3 from Ladislav Michnovič 2008-04-21 05:58:31 MST --- Hello. Is anybody to pick up this bug? I would really appreciate fixing this issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User lmichnovic@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c5 Ladislav Michnovič changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@novell.com --- Comment #5 from Ladislav Michnovič 2008-05-05 06:16:56 MST --- Jeff, can anybody take a look at this issue, please? It is untouched quite long time. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User lmichnovic@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c7 --- Comment #7 from Ladislav Michnovič 2008-05-19 08:55:27 MST --- It's still the same in Beta3 but it has kernel 2.6.25.3. I will try to upgrade the kernel. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User gregkh@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c9 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |lmichnovic@novell.com --- Comment #9 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-05-19 09:37:42 MST --- Yes, that's not good at all, .4 or newer is what we want to ship with... Please create a new bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User lmichnovic@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c11 --- Comment #11 from Ladislav Michnovič 2008-05-19 09:51:16 MST --- (In reply to comment #6 from Greg Kroah-Hartman)

I don't see how this is a kernel bug, but 2.6.25.4 did have a fix in it for UTF-8 characters on the console, so this might be fixed now.

I get kernel 2.6.25.4 to work. The behavior changes slightly. After "loadkeys sk-qwerty" it writes wrong encoded characters instead of question marks. It looks like latin2 encoding instead of UTF-8. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jsuchome@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c13 Jiří­ Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|jsuchome@novell.com | --- Comment #13 from Jiří­ Suchomel 2008-05-19 23:51:50 MST --- I don't have an idea, the command above worked just by a chance. YaST country module just uses the loadkeys command, so the problem is elsewhere. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jkosina@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c14 Jiri Kosina changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |lmichnovic@novell.com --- Comment #14 from Jiri Kosina 2008-05-23 06:49:42 MST --- What is the value in /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_utf8 please? Does altering it change behavior in any way? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 Jiri Kosina changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jkosina@novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jbohac@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c16 Jiri Bohac changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pmladek@novell.com --- Comment #16 from Jiri Bohac 2008-06-05 09:57:29 MDT --- *** Bug 303957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=303957 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jbohac@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c18 --- Comment #18 from Jiri Bohac 2008-06-17 12:15:42 MDT --- The kernel patch got accepted upstream, it will appear in the kernel cvs's HEAD with 2.6.26-rc7. Let's wait until it's in our KOTDs to make it easier for the YaST folks to test things. There is quite a lot to fix. Right now i noticed another thing in the /etc/sysconfig/kbd script that breaks things. The following line: dumpkeys | loadkeys -C "$KBD_TTY" --unicode can never work for anything but latin1. Dumpkeys gets the keymap from the kernel and does not know (the kernel does not know either) which 8-bit encoding it is in. It defaults to latin1 and when the output is piped to loadkeys it loads a completely bogus keymap. Simply put, loadkeys foo; dumpkeys produces a fundamentally different keymap than foo. We may pass the correct codepage to dumpkeys, but now that the kernel is fixed again, this whole line seems totally unnecessary. I'll re-assign this bug to the kbd maintainer when the fixed kernel appears in STABLE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jw@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c20 --- Comment #20 from Juergen Weigert 2008-06-24 10:09:00 MDT --- thanks for comment#18. I never understood how this was supposed to work, but I left it in, as it helped me with latin1. I currently have no test machines available. Will take a while before I attend to this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jsuchome@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c22 --- Comment #22 from Jiří­ Suchomel 2008-09-01 00:18:37 MDT --- Ping. Please let's try to fix this old issue for Code 11... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 Michal Marek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mmarek@novell.com AssignedTo|jw@novell.com |mmarek@novell.com Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jsuchome@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c25 --- Comment #25 from Jiří­ Suchomel 2008-09-05 02:34:46 MDT --- (In reply to comment #24 from Michal Marek)

(In reply to comment #21 from Jiri Suchomel)

...

So, what is the current status of this bug? And which changes in YaST are required?

Yes, as Jiri wrote, /etc/sysconfig/console:CONSOLE_SCREENMAP needs to be 8859-2 for the Czech (and Slovak presumably) keyboard to work.

And what about other languages? YaST uses the table from /usr/share/YaST2/data/consolefonts.ycp - and currently for each keyboard layout there is only "none" or "trivial" (for UTF-8) value... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User mmarek@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c27 Michal Marek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jbohac@novell.com --- Comment #27 from Michal Marek 2008-09-08 08:37:10 MDT --- All of pl, cs, sk and hu display black-on-white question marks instead of some characters when the trivial map is used and work with -m 8859-2. jbohac: does this mean that for every non-latin1 language YaST has to choose a special map? What has changed in the kernel that it doesn't work without a map anymore? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jbohac@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c28 Jiri Bohac changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jbohac@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|jbohac@novell.com | --- Comment #28 from Jiri Bohac 2008-09-17 04:44:19 MDT --- I am not aware of any change in the kernel. I think it simply never worked since we use Unicode for the console. I did not test, but I think that when the console is in an 8-bit encoding (e.g. 8859-2 for cs_CZ), it will work well with the trivial map. Or are you aware of any distro we shipped where it worked well in UTF-8 mode? So yes, we need to specify a screen map for each non-latin1 language in UTF-8 mode. I think the correct mapping should be easy to decode from the corresponding font's name... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User mmarek@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c30 --- Comment #30 from Michal Marek 2008-09-23 09:20:00 MDT --- (In reply to comment #28 from Jiri Bohac)

I am not aware of any change in the kernel. I think it simply never worked since we use Unicode for the console. .. Or are you aware of any distro we shipped where it worked well in UTF-8 mode?

You are right, it newer worked. I tried with a 10.2 kernel and it *seems* to work there: The 'š' (U+0161 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON) key displays a 'š' on the console, but the application gets 0xc2 0xb9 (the latin2 code for 'š' encoded to UTF8), instead of the correct 0xc5 0xa1 code. (In reply to comment #29 from Jiri Suchomel)

I'm not sure about iso07u and iso09: is it correct to use 8859-7 and 8859-9?

And even more I'm confused with cyrillic - currently we have this mapping in yast:

// LANG font unicode map screen map, magic "ru_RU.KOI8-R" : [ "Cyr_a8x16.psfu", "", "koi2alt", "(K" ], "ru" : [ "Cyr_a8x16.psfu", "", "koi2alt", "(K" ], "ru_RU.UTF-8" : [ "Cyr_a8x16.psfu", "", "trivial", "(K" ],

Now, what should be the screen map for ru_RU.UTF-8?

I really don't know (I don't know Russian), when I tried the other day, it seemed to work (it displayed some Russian characters) with the trivial map, but I might have fallen to a similar trap as above. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801 User jsuchome@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367801#c32 Jiří­ Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|mmarek@novell.com | Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #32 from Jiří­ Suchomel 2008-09-24 06:39:07 MDT --- I adapted the screen map values for latin2 languages and Lithuanian in yast2-country-2.17.12. For the rest, I don't know the correct values, so it will be fixed when someone raises the specific issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.