Re: [XonX-Users] Patch for darwinkeyboard.c
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From: Mario K. <ma...@kl...> - 2001-10-25 08:12:35
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thursday, 25. October 2001 00:33, Torrey T. Lyons wrote: > This patch looks very promising and is going in the right direction > we need to go. You are right that the main things we need to do are > to correctly map Option, Shift-Option, etc. codes and to properly > fill in ascii_to_x and other tables, which are generally incomplete > and wrong in many cases for characters above 127. Just yesterday (after checking almost everything, I was able to find about character encoding on the apple web site), I finally found out (without any help from apple), what char encoding is used for the keyboard mappings: It is the NeXT character set. I also found out, that X11 does have different key symbols for the dead keys. So its propably needed to add a checkbox to the preferences panel to select, wether the user wants deat keys for X11... ... and it probably is needed to have to tables to map betwenn NeXT char codes and X11 symbols... ... not the best idea, it will be hard to maintain. :-( > In any case, we are feature freeze now for XFree86 4.2 and so its too > late to make such major changes to our keymapping code for this > release. At least, it works for me. :-) > In the meantime, you > might also want to post your patch to the Patches section of the XonX > project page so more people can see it and try it out. Now that I found out about the encoding, I will add this first. For the XonX Patches selection, I must admit, that I do not really like a web based interface for discussions. Can this be done via email oder other "traditional" means? > >If anybody can help me on any of these topics, please let me know. > > I assume you already read the help on the topic in "man dumpkeymap". > Otherwise it seems like you are on the right track. To bad, I did not know about dumpkeymap earlier. It could have saved me a lot of work. Ok, now I have keyboard mappings for various lnguages, I do have a program to dump them, does anybody know, where I can find images of the keyboard layouts for the other languages? 73, Mario - - -- Mario Klebsch ma...@kl... PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C5E5 8B98 9464 53FF 9382 F518 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: +vyIW1upRDSKZnK3gEE0zPsVclRqxRyK iQA/AwUBO9fJijDOn7KgR5zgEQL56ACfcdBYl7KlWabO5kVs9e8VjuV2kRwAn26H bCgKn5rVsm717TImf9t1UiVN =3M9n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |