[Bug 2241601] New: Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default Fedora French layout)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241601

Bug ID: 2241601
           Summary: Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default
                    Fedora French layout)
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
         Component: xkeyboard-config
          Severity: medium
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail]
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora

fr(oss) is supposed to emit French upper case accented letters in caps locks
mode ÉÈÇÀ

Something changed in the past months and it emits lower case instead. So you
get very annoying mixed-case éLéGANT runs of text in caps locks.

Explicit level 4 capital selection still works but this change breaks existing
user habits and is very inconvenient for new users.

To be honest I’ve noticed the breakage for some time but was hoping it was a
stupid mistake that would go away with time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. switch to fr(oss)
2. set cap locks
3. tap the first (number) row → letters with diacritics should be emitted in
upper case, for example É, not lower case é

It is not a bug that cap locks produces symbols and accented letters. In
azerty, unlike qwerty, access to the diacritics necessary to type proper French
is prioritized over access to numbers

[Bug 2241601] Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default Fedora French layout)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241601

Peter Hutterer  changed:

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           Doc Type|---                         |If docs needed, set a value

--- Comment #1 from Peter Hutterer  ---
Any chance you can test an older xkeyboard-config? They're compatible between
releases anyway so you should be able to install virtually any older one. Or
you could even just bisect through the upstream `symbols/fr` file by copying it
over your system one for each bisect stage. I can't find any immediate smoking
gun in the recent commit log for that file, so let's hope you have more luck.

[Bug 2241601] Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default Fedora French layout)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241601

Jens Petersen  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |CURRENTRELEASE
        Last Closed|                            |2025-04-14 07:58:33

--- Comment #3 from Jens Petersen  ---
Looks fine to me in f41 and F42 at least

[Bug 2241601] Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default Fedora French layout)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241601

--- Comment #4 from Jens Petersen  ---
and current F40 Live respin