Bug#1026986: console-setup: "Dead" keys do not work for Greek keyboard layout in tty

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Παύλος Γκέσος, le jeu. 29 déc. 2022 23:02:55 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Yes, unfortunately that's something that the Linux kernel does not
> > support currently. It only supports one dead key press at a time.
> 
> I never imagined that for dead keys there is code in the kernel.

The whole Linux console is supported by the Linux kernel, there is no
userland code involved except for loading fonts & keyboard layouts into
the kernel.

> There is a workaround then.
> The Microsoft Windows workaround:
> 
> Press key combination Shift-w (dead key for ΅)
> Press key y or i to get characters ΰ or ΐ.
> 
> These characters are very useful in the Greek language.
> Also the implementation with the Shift-w key combination does not
> break anything as:
> key s gives char σ
> key combination Shift-s gives char Σ
> key w gives char ς
> key combination Shift-w gives char Σ again

I don't understand: in what you described, shift-w is used both for dead
key for ΅ and for producing Σ ?

Or did you mean shift-; above?

Samuel