Intrepid cannot produce "é" letter (MacBook Pro)

[oss_test_launchpad]

On a MacBook Pro rev. 3, Ubuntu 8.10 64-Bit fully updated cannot produce the letter "é" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89). I am not sure if this occured from the very start. Maybe this is due to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/67188 which came with some update.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-ubuntu-title/+bug/256614 also relates to this letter. I am not quite sure whether there is a connection.

There are various other bug reports relating to the MacBook Pro keyboard. Generally, there is no autodetection and full support for this keyboard yet. Maybe this is related in some way. References:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/139836
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mouseemu/+bug/87482
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/116513
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pommed/+bug/131818
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/139836
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/262319

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

No. This is NOT a duplicate. On a German keyboard, this letter is produced using the "´" key and then "e". You cannot need "AltGr" to produce it. Please REMOVE the "duplicate" tag.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for all the references! I do agree your issue appears to be a valid unique bug, not a dupe of any of the others.

67188 (and 116513) is a long standing issue not limited to macbooks. I don't think it would cause this issue.
87482 has to do with the mouse not the keyboard; xkeyboard-config does nothing with mouse clicks.
131818 is more likely to be a hotkey issue so I'd guess it to be unrelated to this problem.
139836 (listed twice; dupe of 261573) is due to a longstanding architectural issue in the xkb protocol, not specific to macbooks and unfortunately not trivial to solve or to work around. It only involves Alt handling so is unrelated to this.
262319 (dupe of 160171) sounds like another dupe of 261573

Can you please attach the output of 'setxkbmap -print' and 'xkbcomp :0 -'?

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

> I do agree your issue appears to be a valid unique bug, not a dupe of any of the others.

The duplicate flag is still set; will you remove it then?

> Can you please attach the output of 'setxkbmap -print' and 'xkbcomp :0
-'?

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:~$ setxkbmap -print

xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+de(mac_nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
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':~$ xkbcomp :0 -' outputs too much text for the terminal. Please tell me how to enter this command in a way that makes it possible for the terminal to cope with it.
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