Distribution: Fedora Core 2 Hardware Environment: x86 Software Environment: GNU/Linux Problem Description: On Linux console, one cannot input composed characters (those that require a dead key) anymore, when in Unicode mode. It has always been like that for Unicode mode. Steps to reproduce: Please, for full details, see bugzilla report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143014
There are still talks of moving the console in userspace, and provide only a kernel console that will be used only when booting and when printing an oops. There is still a long way to go, so I'll defer this bug.
Any updates on this problem? Thanks.
There have been some activity on this issue. http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8@nl.linux.org/msg04900.html Summary of discussion with LKML and linux-utf8. As Antonino mentions, the preferred direction is to solve the issue in user-space. (also http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2007-07/) There is a terminal emulator that works on the framebuffer, called fbiterm, http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/iterm.html Therefore, it is an issue of finding an input method for the console. I haven't tried fbiterm (there are packages for most distros). Packages such as IIIMF are supposed to work for the console. For this to continue, it's an issue of someone to pick up the existing work. This task, is up for grabs.
If you want a kernel-based solution that you have to apply on your own, see http://www.advogato.org/person/simosx/diary.html?start=2 There was a discussion on the above patch on LKML during the time of the thread at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8@nl.linux.org/msg04900.html Sorry, I do not have a direct link to that. For this report, I would consider the situation to be something like "NOT_KERNEL", unless someone manages to persuade kernel developers that adding just this one thing (compose) to the Linux emergency console is not that bad, and we will not ask for any other feature whatsoever in the future.