Bug 104867

Summary:	GPM fails to insert non-ASCII characters properly
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jbohac, mmarek
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
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Attachments:	patch to allow copy and paste of latin1

Description Ulrich Windl 2005-08-16 07:02:34 UTC

When trying to copy & paste non-ASCII characters with GPM on the Linux console
(framebuffer) into Bash, those characters do not appear (e.g "möglich" will
appear as "mglich"). Furthermore Bash gets confused: when trying to insert an
ASCII character after the 'm', some "magic" character appears, and when moving
the cursor along the word, characters appear and disappear, and Bash's readline
gets out of sync regarding display and internal character position.
GPM should be able to paster non_ACSII characters as well.

Comment 1 Petr Mladek 2005-08-18 11:23:48 UTC

I'll look at it.

Comment 2 Michal Marek 2005-08-22 11:47:25 UTC

I'll try to debug this today...

Comment 3 Michal Marek 2005-08-23 10:22:40 UTC

Created attachment 47148 [details]
patch to allow  copy and paste of latin1

1. The actual copy-and-paste is done by the kernel, so this is not a GPM
bug.

2. Unfortunatelly, it's IMHO impossible to reconstruct the UTF-8 text
when copying from the console -- this patch just enables it for Latin1
(Umlauts for instance) and replaces other characters with a question
mark to avoid the "magic" character from appearing. I'm not sure whether
this doesn't break other languages, where it might have worked before --
someone would have to check, I'm not a kernel hacker.

Comment 4 Petr Mladek 2005-08-26 10:37:06 UTC

It should be fixed in kernel -> reassign to the kernel developers.

Comment 5 Vojtech Pavlik 2005-08-31 15:37:36 UTC

Ok, I'll take a look at what we can do with this. Jiri, would you be willing
to take a look into the console code again?

Comment 6 Jiri Bohac 2005-09-01 11:11:36 UTC

I think it is actually possible to reverse-map the unicode->glyph mapping; the
inverse_translations table just needs to be initialized accordingly.

I'll have a look at it next week.

Comment 7 Vojtech Pavlik 2005-11-14 12:27:22 UTC

Any progress? ;)

Comment 8 Jiri Bohac 2006-02-28 19:21:47 UTC

Submited a patch to the kernel CVS, should be in the next beta.

Comment 9 Jiri Bohac 2006-03-14 19:02:44 UTC

fixed in 10.1 beta 7

Comment 10 Ales Nosek 2007-02-06 10:48:56 UTC

In openSUSE 10.2:
I tried to copy & paste some german umlauts (ä, ö) with GPM in Linux console. These characters didn't copy.

Comment 11 Jiri Bohac 2008-01-02 15:10:37 UTC

Ales, does this still happen on 11.0? I can't reproduce it.

Comment 12 Ales Nosek 2008-01-04 12:12:00 UTC

It works in 11Alpha0 :-)

Comment 13 Jiri Bohac 2008-01-08 10:23:10 UTC

Thanks, closing as FIXED