Re: [XonX-Users] Patch for darwinkeyboard.c
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From: Torrey T. L. <to...@mr...> - 2001-10-25 21:04:21
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At 10:12 AM +0200 10/25/01, Mario Klebsch wrote: >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... We could do that. >... and it probably is needed to have to tables to map betwenn NeXT >char codes and X11 symbols... Yeah, I think that's really the only way to go even though its a pain to make. >... not the best idea, it will be hard to maintain. :-( It sounds like you are on the right track. When you are done, your work will be appreciated by many users. I don't think the maintenance will be too hard, however, as neither character set is likely to change. >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? You can submit patches in whatever way you think is best. If you use the Patches section, you can always request that discussion be directed to XonX Users in your comment. You can also monitor the patch so that you get email with the comment whenever anyone makes a comment or changes its status. (Actually I think as the patch creator you get setup to monitor it by default.) > > >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? The layout of the scan codes is given in the .keyboard files. Supposedly there used to be one or more NeXT GUI applications that take a .keyboard file and a .keymapping and display the keyboard layout with the character codes generated labelled on the keys. I don't know how to find one these days, however. Of course, one could be written, which would be a nice addition to dumpkeymap. --Torrey |