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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:51:15 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Note: patch relies on keymap being consistent wrt SMALL/CAPITAL symbols.
> Though extracting SMALL <=> CAPITAL mapping from unicode tables and
> putting it into kernel may be more correct.
>
> Fix long-standing http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7063
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

The assumptions seem reasonable and if not we'll find out. Either way its
going to be an improvement.


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