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bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin ke
From: |
Mathieu Othacehe |
Subject: |
bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:53:48 +0200 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.3 |
Hey,
> I test the Newt-based Debian 10 installer via QEMU. When I select
> English language with Arabic keymap, I can choose a key combination
> for switching the layout, Alt+Shift by default. But I cannot choose
> between AZERTY and QWERTY, I always get QWERTY.
Defining such a combination could be an option too. I tried to implement
the mechanism I proposed, but had multiple problems:
* Shepherd is using /dev/console as an output and some messages are
polluting the help line displayed at the bottom of the screen. I'm not
sure how to solve it.
Shepherd could poll /dev/log so that once syslog is available it stops
using /dev/console.
* Guile-newt functions "newt-set-help-callback" and
"add-component-callback" seem to be tripping over each other and I'm
having a hard time trying to understand why.
Regardless of this keyboard layout issue, having a help menu for the
installer could be useful to display the shortcuts for instance.
Thanks,
Mathieu
bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/03/29