[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#826238: chromium: International keyboard input completely broken: can not use AltGr as compose, dead key or layout switch key

[Alexei A. Smekalkine]

Package: chromium
Version: 37.0.2062.120-1~deb7u1
Severity: normal

International keyboard input completely broken: can not use AltGr as
compose, dead key or layout switch key.

As an example, it is too difficult for me to type anything in chromium:
i am a developer and need to mix text on native message with terms in
Latin encoding, if i try to switch layout then input focus lost (menu
selected). All other applications works as expected.

This bug fixed in upstream.

Chromium Issue #402320:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!
topic/chromium-bugs/RFGH5-C3-S4

Upstream fix:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/83c2b41f1a06ca226a05edf0602d5c6efea32a8b%5E%21/#F0 (to patch Debian version replace "xkey->keycode" with "xkey.keycode").

Package was rebuild with slightly modified upstream patch (attached as
no-fallback-hw-codes.patch) and tested. Fix helps in case on AltGr as
layout toggle key.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.10
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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