Infodrom Oldenburg

— Debian GNU/Linux —

Problems with keys and fonts 12.1.2001
After the upgrade from potato to woody to unstable the Debian boxes have some flaws concerning keys, fonts and encodings. The following list sums up current problems:
  • Displaying german manpages with man -l foo man-db does not display german umlauts anymore. This doesn't seem to be a bug in the pager less since you won't see umlauts when redirecting the manpage into a file. This changes if you run man-db within screen
  • When using screen umlauts are displayed. However, not all combinations of umlauts will be visible, you must not group two umlauts: thus "gemäß" becomes "gem", "müßte" becomes "mte".
  • After the upgrade the backspace key in an Xterm doesn't behave as BS anymore.
  • After the upgrade, the ALT-key doesn't work in Xterm anymore, it beeps and adds a character but doesn't forward the proper key to bash.
Done on 15.11.2006

Hopefully done now that sarge is out for a while and etch is to be released soon.