Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:54:29 +0100 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII |
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Samuel Thibault, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 23:27:38 +0100, a écrit : > > My keymap contains > > > > keycode 44 = +z > > shift keycode 44 = +Z > > altgr keycode 44 = U+044F # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA > > altgr shift keycode 44 = U+042F # CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA > > And U+044F / U+042F is not KT_LETTER. > > Yes, there's no way you can express a unicode character in KT_LETTER. > Limited interface, but that's not a reason to break other interfaces.
One way to go would be to decrete that keysyms between 0xD800 and 0xE000 (unused anyway) are "KT_LETTER" versions of the unicode 0x0000 - 0x0800. That however covers only part of Unicode and doesn't solve the case of keyboards where the upper case of a letter is not simply at the shifted position.
The real correct solution is really to have kbd use modifiers just like console-setup and provide a way for them to configure which leds should be lit when some modifier is locked. That way building a keymap becomes just orthogonal, no need to upload a table of lower/upper pairs (which depend on the locale see for instance i/I vs i/İ).
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