Package: xkb-data
Version: 1.0~cvs.20070721-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
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Hello,
xkb-data 'gur' keymap is missing two characters (there may be more, however,
that I may have not come across yet!) from Gurmukhi making it impossible to
correctly type an article.
The two characters are:
1) Unicode character: 0A72 (addak), which is ੱ
2) Unicode character: 0A5C (Rharha), which is ੜ
To get (2) above by typing SHIFT+A30 (I am not sure where it should go
according to the standard based on which others are placed on a keyboard,
but I am guessing it can be put as SHIFT+A30), line no. 50 in
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/gur may be changed to the following:
key <AC07> { [], [ 0x1000A30, 0x1000A5C
] };
The first one is a bit tricky. It appears that it should be mapped to the
key "X" on the US querty keyboard. Here is one way
to get this, by modifying line 58 of xkb-data package to the following (this
key already has two chars. assigned to it, so
addak will have to typed using the modifier key):
key <AB02> { [], [ 0x1000A02, 0x1000A70, 0x1000A71
] };
The above two are just suggestions on how get around the problem. The
maintainer, of course, is free to research if a better method, or a correct
one, exists to solve this problem.
Thanks,
->HS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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