unifont issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027450
I provide the following files:
Greek-Fixed16_original.psf
It is the current console font.
Greek-Fixed16.psf
It is the new-corrected console font
Greek-Fixed16.psf.gz
It is the new-corrected console font compressed
console_original.png
How the current glyphs appear in Debian tty.
console_fixed.
I confirm that all Greek characters with their accent appear normally.
It's the end of seven+ years of pain!
Thank you very much!
> Ah, you mean that currently, shift-w produces Sigma, but that's not
> actually useful, so we can just make it a dead key for ̈́?
Exactly!
This is what Microsoft Windows does.
Probably the Windows kernel has the same limitation too :-)
> There is a workaround then.
> The Microsoft Windows workaround:
>
> Press key combination Shift-w (dead key for ΅)
> Press key y or i to get characters ΰ or ΐ.
To certify what I said about Shift-w:
http://kbdlayout.info/kbdhe
> Yes, unfortunately that's something that the Linux kernel does not
> support currently. It only supports one dead key press at a time.
I never imagined that for dead keys there is code in the kernel.
There is a workaround then.
The Microsoft Windows workaround:
Press key combination Shift-w (d
Great, but not 100% fixed.
The following functionality is not fixed:
WHAT MUST HAPPEN:
Type KEY ; (in Greek is the CHAR "'") - This is a
"dead" key and nothing happens
Type KEY COMBINATION Shift-; (in Greek is the CHAR """) - This is a
"dead" key and nothing happens
Type KEY
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