Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

[Jan Rafaj]

On Mon, 28 May 2018, Jan Rafaj wrote:

attached file. If you could append this to the /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-2.inc file. This will add all the missing definitions, enabling the user to input all the czech letters on a cz keyboard layout, provided that (s)he has defined either 'Lat2' or 'ISO-8859-2' for the 'CODESET=' in the /etc/default/console-setup .

I'm taking back the "provided that (s)he has defined either 'Lat2'
or 'ISO-8859-2' for the 'CODESET=' in the /etc/default/console-setup".


I've been really only able to come up with this workaround:

1. do just once:
     cat bug-899979-missing-compose-defs-for-czech-console-kb >> \
     /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-2.inc

2. add to /etc/rc.local :
     sed -ri 's|^(CHARMAP=").*|\1ISO-8859-2"|' /etc/default/console-setup
     setupcon
     sed -ri 's|^(CHARMAP=").*|\1UTF-8"|' /etc/default/console-setup
     setupcon

3. reboot


Jan