Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:53:51 +0300 | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:27:39PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Alexey Dobriyan, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 22:53:13 +0300, a écrit : > And you could probably also read bug #7746 which is probably now a dup > (yes, the original report mixes several issues). > > > 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.
What other interfaces?
Here, U+044F is sent, now (correctly) U+042F.
> > > > Note: patch relies on keymap being consistent wrt SMALL/CAPITAL symbols. > > > > > > And that's not true for a lot of keyboard symbols. > > > > That's why patch implies keymap is not fucked up. > > However you can't changed the "fucked up" keyboard of people. They have > bought it and it's printed like that on it...
keymap is loadable, what are you talking about? /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ru.map.gz
> > > One issue however is that then the capslock keyboard led doesn't > > > light up while in caps mode. > > > > Interesting breakage you have. > > It's not breakage. It's because instead of using the KT_LETTER way to > get the caps lock behavior, console-setup uses a modifier, since it's > much more powerful (you just decide what exactly will be the upper case, > and not have to rely on the shifted keysym to be the expected one), but > the kernel doesn't permit to assign a modifier to a keyboard LED. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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