Re: Asian keyboards and input.h KEY_* defines

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:07:52PM +0200, 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'd suggest KEY_INTL1 or KEY_LANG1 be the number KEY_JPN has now. What
do you think?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs