Keyboard losing some character like "|" (pipe) on Feisty Fawn

[Ivan Arsenault]

Hi,

    How to reproduce :

Chose "Canada" Keyboard (French Canadian) by default and chose "English US" to second choice.

Switch from "Canada" to "English US" keyboard. Try to write pipe character you will get >>>> and <<<<
suppose to be |||||||||| and \\\\\\\

Note : When I do my initial installation I chose English US for the Default Keyboard. After that, on gnome I switch to "Canada"
keyboard by default (I don't like to have "French Canadian" keyboard on console (Alt-F1) when a have to resolve problem).

This bug is for the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta Feisty Fawn ...

Thank you

Ivan

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Could you add the keyboard indicator applet, right click on it and select the option to show the layout, do a screenshot of the dialog and attach it to the bug?

[joel (ubuntu-bug)]

Hi, just upgraded from Edgy to Feisty-fawn and have the exact same problem.

However, here are additional infos:

-Keyboard layout: Generic 104-key PC

Activated Layouts:
- Canada (default)
- U.S. English

When I open up a terminal, I usually switch to U.S. English, however the mapping of the "\ |" key types "< >", like it would normally do on the Canada keyboard configuration.

It is annoying, but there seems to be a workaround:
Put U.S. English first and then Canada (still being default) in the Keyboard Preferences dialog, everything works normally.

[joel (ubuntu-bug)]

Update:

I just looked on the xkeyboard-config code repository and there was a change brought on the following file:
/xkeyboard-config/symbols/us

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Revision 1.28 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [selected]
Sun Apr 29 16:28:26 2007 UTC (23 hours ago) by svu
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.27: +2 -1 lines
Diff to previous 1.27

adding BKSL to us, b.fd.o#10811 and relevant
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Modified file can be checked here: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/symbols/us?revision=1.28&view=markup

Diff with previous version: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/symbols/us?r1=1.27&r2=1.28

Note: I have absolutely no knowledge about xkeyboard-config and my assumption might be false. Updating Ubuntu's xkeyboard-config package might just solve this problem.

[Jan Kaláb (pitel)]

The above code looks like fix, but I'm not sure.
And there are the required screenshots of keyboard layouts. Problem is with the key above Enter/Return key. But those scrrenshots looks OK.

[Jan Kaláb (pitel)]

Still exists in gutsy.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Fixed in Hardy.