Package: console-data
Version: 2:1.01-04
Severity: grave

Hi,
  typing accented characters using dead keys doesn't work well for some 
characters in linux console.
  I use etch (from daily built netinst CD) with czech UTF-8 locales. When I try 
typing accented characters directly via keys "234567890[;", letters 
"ěščřžýáíéúů" are displayed correctly. When I try to type characters like "Žť", 
i.e. characters not present on czech keyboard, or characters "ščž" via dead key 
+ letter, I get wrong UTF-8 character. When I try to type "áíý" via dead key + 
letter, it returns right characters. It seems that characters from iso8859-1 
are typed well and characters from iso8859-2 extension are typed by wrong way.

  I save some example set of charactes to file and I discover following 
troubles:

    Character               keyboard returns  Status    Note
(with UTF-8 hex uncoding)     (hex codes)
    Á   c3 81                   c3 81           OK
    á   c3 a1                   c3 81           OK
    Č   c4 8c                   c3 88           X
    č   c4 8d                   c3 a6           X
    Ď   c4 8e                   c3 8f           X
    ď   c4 8f                   c3 af           X
    Ň   c5 87                   c3 92           X
    ň   c5 88                   c3 b2           X
    Ó   c3 93                   c3 93           OK
    ó   c3 b3                   c3 b3           OK
    Š   c5 a0                   c2 a9           X       a9 = "Š" in iso8859-2 
codepage
    š   c5 a1                   c2 b9           X       b9 = "š" in iso8859-2 
codepage
    Ť   c5 a4                   c2 ab           X       ab = "Ť" in iso8859-2 
codepage
    ť   c5 a5                   c2 bb           X       bb = "ť" in iso8859-2 
codepage
    Ž   c5 bd                   c2 ae           X       ae = "Ž" in iso8859-2 
codepage
    ž   c5 be                   c2 be           X       be = "ž" in iso8859-2 
codepage


locale: cs_CZ.UTF-8
keyboard map: cz_us_qwertz.kmap.gz
kernel: 2.6.18-3-amd64 (but it works similar with version 2.6.17)
libc6: 2.3.6.ds1-8

Regards,
  P.

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