[cotvnc-devel] [ cotvnc-Bugs-1200303 ] Foreign keyboard error list and possible solution

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Bugs item #1200303, was opened at 2005-05-11 19:02
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Status: Open
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Benoit Leraillez (leraillez)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Foreign keyboard error list and possible solution

Initial Comment:
  To use almost all you keys as they are supposed to be between 
VNC and a Mac running ARD you have to choose a US keyboard 
and play with the capslock and the shift key to find your French 
keyboard.

  You will find hereunder the keyboard result of a powerbook using 
VNC and what is written on a G4. They are both running Tiger. 
Use a fixed width font to have a better view. A tough character is 
"8"  since you have to switch from US to shift-French to type it 
(on my machine at least). The "#@_" are nowhere but I haven't 
tried the alt and alt-shift mapping (the Euro symbol is good 
though ;-)

If you use
French Keyboard
27e%ù9se1cq0)
qwertyuiop 4
asdfghjkl,u
.zxcvbn;mM-

If you use
French keyboard capslock
7E%ù9SE1CQ0)
QWERTYUIOP 4
ASDFGHJKL?U
.ZXCVBN;MM-

If you use
French keyboard Shift
312345678905°
QWERTYUIOP *
ASDFGHJKL?53
/ZXCVBN+/++

If you use
US keyboard    True French version
s&é"'(§è!çà)-  @&é"'(§è!çà)-
azertyuiop^$   azertyuiop^$
qsdfghjklmù`   qsdfghjklmù`
<wxcvbn,;:=    <wxcvbn,;:=

If you use
US Caps-lock   True French version
S&É"'(§È!çÀ)-  @&É"'(§È!çÀ)-
AZERTYUIOP^$   AZERTYUIOP^$
QSDFGHJKLMù`   QSDFGHJKLMù`
<WXCVBN?;:=    <WXCVBN,;:=

If you use
US shift       True French version
#1234567*90°+  #1234567890°_
AZERTYUIOP¨*   AZERTYUIOP¨*
QSDFGHJKLM%£   QSDFGHJKLM%£
>WXCVBN?./+    >WXCVBN?./+


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>Comment By: Jason Harris (smeger)
Date: 2005-08-17 06:43

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Yes, Ingo, that's absolutely correct.  That said, you should definitely try 
building from CVS.  Keyboard mapping was badly broken in 2.0b2 and has 
been reimplemented for the upcoming 2.0b3.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2005-08-17 06:06

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I think I understand the problem now. Tell me if I am right, please:

When I press shift-alt-5 on my german keybord, cotvnc does not send an 
"[" to the server (as supposed by the keybord-mapping of my Mac), but 
instead sends "shift-alt-5" to the server?

So one quick solution would be somehow install the Mac-Keybord-mapping 
in the server, if possible?

Ingo.
(tonne at ingokeck.de)

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Comment By: Jason Harris (smeger)
Date: 2005-07-11 04:52

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There's not really any good solution to this because of the way that the 
various VNC servers behave.  As of 7/11/05, Chicken in CVS sends 
whatever you type, regardless of your keyboard mapping, but in testing, 
most VNC servers will ignore any high-byte characters, such as accented 
vowels.

Closing.

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