[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#686612: ibus-m17n: <AltGr> and <Shift>-non-ascii do not work

[Tore Ferner]

Package: ibus-m17n
Version: 1.3.4-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

On a latin type2 qwerty keyboard (Norwegian):
After selecting hi-phonetic in ibus, in Gnome-shell, expected characters according to /usr/share/m17n/hi-phonetic.mim are not produced for symbols accessed with AltGr.

E.g.:
Pressing [ (AltGr-8) does not give ड
Pressing ] (AltGr-9) does not give ऋ
Pressing @ (AltGr-2) does not give ॅ 
Pressing $ (AltGr-4) does not give ॉ

It used to work in Squeeze.
As a workaround I am for example able to remap the following:

  ((aring) ?ॉ)
  ((ae) ?ऋ)
  ((oslash) ?ड)

But this does not work:

  ((Aring) ?ऑ)
  ((AE) ?ॅ)
  ((Ooblique) ?ढ)

nor:

  ("Å" ?ऑ)
  ("Æ" ?ॅ)
  ("Ø" ?ढ)

Thus the available keys for remapping become too few.

But that could be because I do not know how to specify shift-accessed symbols as sequences.
Is there any user oriented information about how to do this, both regarding <AltGr> and <Shift>? I've searched quite a bit without luck...

The same problems occur for several other mim files, fx grc-mizuochi.mim: Characters accessed with <AltGr>, <Shift>-<AltGr> and <Shift>-some-non-ascii-letter produce only the default non-ibus characters for such keyboard keys, as defined in the files at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ (or so it seems to me).

Best regards
Tore


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ibus-m17n depends on:
ii  ibus                1.4.1-7
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-35
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libibus-1.0-0       1.4.1-7
ii  libm17n-0           1.6.3-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1

ibus-m17n recommends no packages.

ibus-m17n suggests no packages.

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