Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Jan 3 09:51:01 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 20:17 +1030, William Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > > On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > > Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all
> > > > my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is
> > > > that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for
> > > > anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18.
> > > <snip>...</snip>
> 
> > 
> > I really didn't want this to turn into a release philosophy thread, the
> > question was limited strictly to a 'how bad do we really think these
> > keymap issues are' thing.
> 
> 
> I think they are quite an issue still. Even basic things like a non-us
> qwerty keymap (IE dvorak) still has issues from anaconda (Is still
> qwerty in tty). 

Oh, yeah, that's another issue I didn't call out - setting a keymap
within anaconda doesn't necessarily set it on the console. (Though did
that work in F17?) And apparently the console layout you get when
picking Czech is a bad one, that needs its own bug.
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