in french locale, KPDL returns period instead of KP_SEPARATOR

[Jean Bréfort]

This is an important feature for spreadsheet where KP_SEPARATOR is transformed to the current locale decimal separator.
The spreadsheet known to be affected by this problem is gnumeric. I tested gnumeric1.6.1 and/or 1.6.2 on various distributions (not all, of course), and only ubuntu (both breezy and dapper) presented this problem.
On Breezy, I compiled from sources, since the official package is the somewhat unstable 1.5.90 :-(

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

When pressing KPDL I get a "," with gnumeric of my dapper french configuration. Where do you press the key? Somewhere on the spreadsheet? What do you get? What keyboard configuration do you use?

[Jean Bréfort (jean-brefort-normalesup)]

The locale is fr_FR.UTF-8 and the keyboard layout is "France Alternative".

xev gives:
KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1087856017, (245,157), root:(255,230),
    state 0x2010, keycode 91 (keysym 0x2e, period), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 59
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2e) "."
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2e) "."
    XFilterEvent returns: False

With "France" as layout, things work:
KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1088190558, (472,692), root:(482,765),
    state 0x10, keycode 91 (keysym 0xffae, KP_Decimal), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2e) "."
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2e) "."
    XFilterEvent returns: False

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What do you use "France Alternative"? That seems to be a keymap issue ...

[Jean Bréfort (jean-brefort-normalesup)]

I use the default settings I got after installation. And it is a keymap issue.

[Olivier Mengué (dolmen)]

I provide additional and updated information in bug 188342.