Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:07:39 +0100 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII |
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Alexey Dobriyan, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 16:51:15 +0300, a écrit : > Steps to reproduce: > > [log into console (not xterm)] > [load non-trivial keymap] > [turn on CapsLock] > [type something] > > Symbols won't be capital despite CapsLock and despite Shift+* working > as expected.
Fix your keymap, it should use KT_LETTER instead of KT_LATIN.
> Note: patch relies on keymap being consistent wrt SMALL/CAPITAL symbols.
And that's not true for a lot of keyboard symbols. Strictly speaking, caps lock is caps lock, not shift lock. If you really want a shift lock, then set your caps lock key to produce shift lock. Applying your patch would turn the existing capslock behavior into shift lock, we _don't_ want that.
> Though extracting SMALL <=> CAPITAL mapping from unicode tables and > putting it into kernel may be more correct.
That's what console-setup does by using various symbol levels and it just _works_. One issue however is that then the capslock keyboard led doesn't light up while in caps mode. Maybe we should rethink the interface to light keyboard leds instead.
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