Re: Bug#436923: psili/dasia problem (Aarghhh!)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Version: 2:1.1.4-1

forcemerge 436923 484062
kthxbye

On Tue, Oct  9, 2007 at 15:38:32 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> Brice Goglin wrote:
> 
> > I have forwarded this bug on the upstream bugzilla at the URL
> > above. Feel free to add any comments there if you think it
> > could help. I know nothing about Greek accents and I don't have
> > a Greek polytonic keyboard, so I won't be able to help much :)
> 
> At the moment in Sid, Greek breathing signs *again* do not work.
> 
> 1- First some Greek developers called the breathing signs
>    (falsely) "dead_horn" and "dead_ogonek" -- this was an ugly
>    hack (and acknowledged as such by said developers) which worked
>    fine for Greeks, but for nobody else on the planet (i.e. not
>    for anyone working in a non-Greek locale).
> 
> 2- Then "dead_horn" and "dead_ogonek" (which are entirely
>    non-Greek keysyms, just borrowed by said Greek developers for
>    the occasion) were replaced by U0313 and U0314 respectively. We
>    enjoyed a short period in which Greek breathing signs could
>    actually be typed by anyone in the whole wide world.
> 
> 3- Then somebody thought it was a bright idea to again change the
>    definitions of the breathing signs. In the Compose file U0313
>    was changed into U10000313. What could the poor user do? Make
>    the same change in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, of course.
>    Debian did not do it, so the user had to do it by hand.
> 
> 4- But in the latest Sid, the Compose file has reverted to
>    definitions like U0313, while /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr has
>    reverted to the use of "dead_horn" and "dead_ogonek". So we are
>    literally back to #1. Sigh..
> 
> TIMETE DANAOS ET DONA FERENTES!
> 
> When will we ever get a stable system for entering the Greek
> breathing signs? It is not rocket science. It only requires that
> the people maintaining the keyboard files agree with the people
> maintaining the Compose file. I suspect that there are two
> different groups of Greeks working on those files, independently
> of one another. This has to stop. Somebody has to knock some heads
> together.
> 
It seems that the Compose file was fixed upstream in libX11 1.1.4.  Can
you install the libx11-data package from experimental to verify?  I hope
to be able to upload an updated version to sid in the near future.

Cheers,
Julien

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