Bug ID 1052740
Summary convert X keyboards into kbd and set unicode console font for languages with non-Latin alphabets
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware All
OS openSUSE Factory
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Basesystem
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter opensuse.lietuviu.kalba@gmail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
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Blocker ---

Now openSUSE for languages with Latin alphabets use converted keyboard layouts
from X into kbd, also use unicode console font (as converted layouts supports
it).

Remaining task is to do same transition for non-Latin console keyboard layouts
and set appropriate console font. Perhaps we should preconfigure option to
switch between native and US QWERTY in console for these non-Latin languages
and keyboard layouts.

As noted in https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942896#c70 , 
As noted in https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942896#c69

Greek seems not have converted console keyboard layout from X into kbd. 
For Greek perhaps we can use eurlatgr console font (like for Latin alphabets)

All Cyrillic layouts now use UniCyr_8x16.psf font, but this font seems to be
compatible with cp866, cp1251, iso8859-5 and koi8-r (according
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Belarusian-HOWTO/x28.html) and not compatible with
unicode per se. But openSUSE seems don't provide converted layouts for Russian,
Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Tajik. 
For Cyrillic alphabets we should use LatArCyrHeb-14, LatArCyrHeb-16+ or
LatArCyrHeb-16 console font, that support unicode.


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