GNU bug report logs - #40273
installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:43:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 40273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with
 non-Latin keyboard layouts
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:29:35 +0200

Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> * Guile-newt functions "newt-set-help-callback" and
>>   "add-component-callback" seem to be tripping over each other and I'm
>>   having a hard time trying to understand why.
>
> Ok I found out why, it was the GC that was collecting the callback
> pointers. I fixed it in Guile-newt.

Ouch.  Are there possible other such issues lurking?

> Now I pushed a 'wip-installer-help' branch that implement this
> mechanism. I'm now able to switch the installer keyboard layout from any
> step.

Woohoo, awesome!

Ludo’.
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