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| author | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000 |
| commit | 5536f7440f2f4a12782e8d741cbbba5f1c3cfea8 (patch) | |
| tree | a0f3a22ecc9c0eedfd891d54e9acf06502d2b07f /chapter06/kbd.xml | |
| parent | 2550494b85359ff42bb95a72911c7751cbce14d4 (diff) | |
Applied Alexander Patrakov's patch which adds UTF-8 capability to the
development branch of the LFS Book.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7235 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/kbd.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/kbd.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/kbd.xml b/chapter06/kbd.xml index 52e8a734c..703f959df 100644 --- a/chapter06/kbd.xml +++ b/chapter06/kbd.xml @@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, and Sed</seg></segli <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Kbd</title> +<para>The behaviour of Backspace and Delete keys is not consistent across the +keymaps in the Kbd package. The following patch fixes this issue for +i386 keymaps:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-backspace-patch;</userinput></screen> + +<para>After patching, the Backspace key generates the character with code 127, +and the Delete key generates a well-known escape sequence.</para> + <para>Patch Kbd to fix a bug in <command>setfont</command> that is triggered when compiling with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para> @@ -47,6 +56,11 @@ when compiling with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> +<note>For some languages, e.g. Belarusian, the Kbd package doesn't provide +a useful keymap (the stock "by" keymap assumes the ISO-8859-5 encoding, +while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such languages +have to download working keymaps separately.</note> + </sect2> <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content"><title>Contents of Kbd</title> @@ -274,8 +288,9 @@ pressed on the keyboard</para> <varlistentry id="unicode_start"> <term><command>unicode_start</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Never use it on LFS, -because applications are not configured to support UNICODE.</para> +<para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Don't use this program +unless your keymap file is in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. For other encodings, +this utility produces incorrect results.</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start"><primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary></indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> |