It was difficult to find in the Gnome Settings, but yes, you're right : there's a French(legacy,variant) that can be reached and should be taken to have the dead keys back.
So it isn't a bug, eventually, that I've encountered. Except that I don't understand how my keyboard might have changed its layout once. Thanks for all the help you provided ! It's fine now. À È Ù Ì Ỳ... Regards, Marc Le Bihan De : "Simon McVittie" <s...@debian.org> A : gru...@laposte.net,1072...@bugs.debian.org,xkeyboard-con...@packages.debian.org,debian-l10n-fre...@lists.debian.org,i...@packages.debian.org Envoyé: lundi 10 Juin 2024 13:37 Objet : Re: Bug#1072720: libglib2.0-0: Following fix #1070745, typing `A keys doesn't type an À anymore On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 at 12:35:25 +0200, gru...@laposte.net wrote: > Among GNOME settings, I have three choices available: > Français > Français Azerty > Français Azerty (AFNOR) There should be a lot more than that. I don't speak French, but in an English-language GNOME installation on Debian 12, if I click on "Other" and search for French, choices available to me include: * French (alt.) * French (alt., Latin-9 only) * French (alt., no dead keys) * French (legacy, alt.) * French (legacy, alt., no dead keys) * French (no dead keys) ... and many more. Many of these are AZERTY layouts even though their names don't specifically say so. Based on the information in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr, it seems that "French (legacy, alt.)" should be an AZERTY layout where AltGr+[7] is a "dead_grave" dead key. If I'm reading the translation files correctly, the French translation of "French (legacy, alt.)" might be "Français (obsolète, variante)". I am not a French speaker and I am not familiar with the history of French keyboard layouts, so I cannot say whether you are right or wrong to expect that AltGr+[7] should be a dead key. Perhaps would be able to clarify whether there is a bug in xkb-data or not. Based on the information available in this bug report, I'm confident that GLib is now doing the right thing, so this is not a GLib bug. > Français > Français Azerty > don't fire dead keys on the first row of keys > but > Français Azerty (AFNOR) > does. Strange... If you think this is a regression when compared with older versions of Debian, then the xkb-data maintainers will need to know the answer to this question: What was the most recent date when your keyboard had the behaviour that you expected, and what version of Debian were you running at that time? Thanks, smcv
