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authorArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:46:12 +0000
committerArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:46:12 +0000
commit94aa662138576c22deef1642b3b2b302ad075a82 (patch)
tree38766a292ed556718529449133b71b25138df9b8 /chapter06/kbd.xml
parent5536f7440f2f4a12782e8d741cbbba5f1c3cfea8 (diff)
Reverting UTF-8 changes until everything is in place.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7236 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/kbd.xml b/chapter06/kbd.xml
index 703f959df..52e8a734c 100644
--- a/chapter06/kbd.xml
+++ b/chapter06/kbd.xml
@@ -28,15 +28,6 @@ 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>
@@ -56,11 +47,6 @@ 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>
@@ -288,9 +274,8 @@ 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. 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>
+<para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Never use it on LFS,
+because applications are not configured to support UNICODE.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start"><primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>