On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 10:52:28AM +0000, henkjan gersen wrote: > >Synopsis: BackSpace does not delete some symbols typed with AltGr on the > >console/terminal > >Category: user > >Environment: > System : OpenBSD 6.8 > Details : OpenBSD 6.8 (GENERIC) #97: Sun Oct 4 18:00:46 MDT 2020 > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC > > Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64 > Machine : amd64 > > >Description: > On a freshly installed OpenBSD 6.8 on a Lenovo T495s I noticed that I > am unable to delete > some of the symbols typed with the AltGr key when working on the > console. For clarity: as I > am not in X this is NOT an Xorg/Xenocara related problem. > > Looking at the symbols that I can't delete and comparing them to the > output of "wsconsctl > keyboard.map" shows that the symbols that I can't delete are ones that > have a symbol > specified in the keymap for that layer. As an example: the uk keymap defines > > keycode 2 = 1 exclam plusminus exclamdown > > So holding AltGr when hitting 1 generates a plusminus as expected. > That symbol appears when > typed, but can't be deleted using backspace. > > Symbols on alpha-keys that have no symbol specified for the AltGr in > the keymap can be deleted. > > All of this is with a clean install, so no customised config files > beyond setting up the network. > > >How-To-Repeat: > I use the UK keyboard layout, but the same problem also occurs with US > layout. To reproduce > hold AltGr and type symbols using the number-row when not in X. Trying > to delete the typed > symbols using BackSpace should fail to delete these symbols.
Sounds like you're creating UTF-8 multi-byte characters. The console does not have UTF-8 support. > >Fix: > Nothing immediately obvious to me beyond just using X. At present, UTF-8 only works in X.
