cannot enter Russian capital letters using shift; "-" key is empty in Russia Phonetic

[Ivan Stetsenko]

1) When I'm trying to enter a capital Russian letter using Shift key, I'm getting a lower case symbol. Caps Lock (shift+caps lock in my case) work fine. Shift + numbers works fine as well

2) Symbol "-"/"_" does not included into Russian Phonetic layout.

ii xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu7

[Ivan Stetsenko (stetzen)]

It can be fixed quit easily by changing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file. In the phonetics section a line

    key <AE11> { [ minus, underscore ] };

need to be added and lines like

    key <LatQ> { [ Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA ] };

should be changed to

    key <AD01> { [ Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA ] };

Corrected file is attached, hope it will be used in future releases.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for attaching the file. I think we may want to forward this upstream for review and incorporation.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Created an attachment (id=22884)
0001-ru-Fix-shift-key-for-Russian-letters-include-_-i.patch

Another report from a ubuntu reporter:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/309844

[Problem]
Shift doesn't work on Russian letters, and -/_ is missing from Phonetic layout.

[Original Report]
1) When I'm trying to enter a capital Russian letter using Shift key, I'm getting a lower case symbol. Caps Lock (shift+caps lock in my case) work fine. Shift + numbers works fine as well

2) Symbol "-"/"_" does not included into Russian Phonetic layout.

It can be fixed quit easily by changing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file. In the phonetics section a line

    key <AE11> { [ minus, underscore ] };

need to be added and lines like

    key <LatQ> { [ Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA ] };

should be changed to

    key <AD01> { [ Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA ] };

Corrected file is attached, hope it will be used in future releases.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Ivan, I've forwarded this upstream to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20093 - please subscribe to this bug in case upstream has questions.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Meantime, I've uploaded this to Ubuntu for jaunty. Thanks for your contribution!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xkeyboard-config - 1.5-2ubuntu4

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xkeyboard-config (1.5-2ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add 106_ru_fix_shift.patch: Shift doesn't work on Russian letters, and
    -/_ is missing from Phonetic layout.
    (LP: #309844)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:36:22 -0800

[Sergey V. Udaltsov (svu)]

I understand about minus-underscore.
But could you (or the author) please explain about different keycodes? Essentially they are just aliases - there is no need to replace, functionally it is all equivalent.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Okay, I was wondering about that. In that case please focus this bug only on the minus-underscore issue.

[Sergey V. Udaltsov (svu)]

minus/underscore added, please check in git

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Upstream mentions that symbols like AE11/LatQ are just aliases so it should not be necessary to replace them. Please explain further why you found your issue required them to be changed?

[Ivan Stetsenko (stetzen)]

I've tried to figure out the cause of the bug and replaced the patched ru file with one I've found on the xorg website. Surprisingly, everything works fine, including the -/_ key. Unfortunately, I cannot understand the full structure of the xkb configuration, but it looks like the original problem was in inserting parts of kind of basic keymap into specific one. This caused both problem with alias recognition and -/_ bug, and it was fixed at some point. So that my "patch" used to fix only the symptom and was just a workaround. Sorry about that.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Fixed patch queued for next xkeyboard-config upload.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xkeyboard-config - 1.5-2ubuntu8

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xkeyboard-config (1.5-2ubuntu8) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Update 106_ru_fix_shift.patch: Remove extraneous parts to only
    change the minus/underscore issue. Upstream.
    (LP: #309844)
  * Add 109_de_low_quotemarks.patch: Add keys for typing low quotation
    marks. Upstream.
    (LP: #59572)
  * Add 110_fi_brokenbar.patch: Add keys for bar and broken bar symbols in
    the finnish keymap. Upstream.
    (LP: #181595)
  * Add 111_si_rm_unnecessary_diagraph_layouts.patch
    and 112_si_rm_unnecessary_diagraph_layouts_basexmlin.patch:
    Remove unnecessary diagraph layouts. Upstream.
    (LP: #162462)
  * Add 113_kg_fix_kyrgyz_layouts.patch: Update to official Kyrgyz
    Republic layouts. Upstream.
    (LP: #198655)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:02:42 -0700