[PATCH] Better support for foreign language keyboards (was: Asian keyboards and input.h KEY_* defines)

[Franz S. <Fra...@la...>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a hard time thinking about a reasonable mapping for the 4 extra keys
> available on a Apple japanese USB and ADB keyboards (and this can only get
> worse as more asian keyboards layouts will be supported). The Apple version
> correctly uses international and language keys as defined in the HUT spec
> 1.1, one of them is currently already mapped to KEY_JPN in hid.c, but the
> others...
>
> So I suggest to add defines for KEY_INTL1-9 and KEY_LANG1-9 in input.h,
> with a comment that they should be used as specified in the HUT. This would
> in turn make KEY_JPN superfluous.

I have done a patch now for this. Please note that evtest.c and input.h 
disagree on their understanding of keycode 179 and 180.

Franz.