Public bug reported:
I'm trying to use kubuntu in a network with quite a few other iso-8859-1 machines. Coming from plain Debian, I expected (k)ubuntu to support iso-8859-1 out of the box, which I can see it does not. After going through a few tips on the internet, I decided to add this line: en_DK ISO88591 to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en as well as /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local, after which I ran "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to generate this new locale. It worked quite well, _except_ that all my dead keys are now behaving as if I had used the "nodeadkeys" option, which I have triple-checked that I don't use. This means that words come out like "se~nor" and "m¨ot¨orhead". The strange thing is, that this exact setup worked fine in plain Debian. P.S: I have tried running "xev" to see which keys X sees, and I get "deadcircumflex", "dead_diaeresis", etc. So X _is_ seeing the dead keys, it's just not displaying them right. I have no idea why. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- Bitrot in locale support https://launchpad.net/bugs/51071 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs