Re: [Kmfl-user] Shift International-Backspace in Physical Keyboards

[Richard W. <ric...@nt...>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 11:38:13 +0000
Richard Wordingham <ric...@nt...> wrote:

> My 'physical' KMFL keyboard has not survived the transition from
> Ubuntu 12.04 Precise to Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial as well as I thought.

On reviewing the KMfL code, I now see that there currently isn't any
difference between a physical and a mnemonic *KMfL* keyboard.

> What seems odd is that KMfL used the scan code to distinguish the
> inputs [K_oE2] and [shift K_COMMA], but not [shift K_oE2] and [shift
> K_PERIOD].

Unfortunately, the KMfL interpreter simply ignores the scan code.  What
it looks at is the key symbol and the shift state.  Thus the first pair
is distinguish because of different shift state - '<' without and with
shift, but the second pair is just received as '>' with shift, and I'm
lucky that it is translated to U+1A4A (for which I have set up no
alternative keying) and not U+1A55 (for which I do have an alternative
keying).

The key observation is that KMfL does not support [shift K_oE2] for the
US keyboard setting.

Richard.