Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262290AbTINDxa (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:53:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262292AbTINDxa (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:53:30 -0400 Received: from smtp3.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.139]:46220 "EHLO smtp3.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262290AbTINDv4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:51:56 -0400 Message-ID: <1b7301c37a73$861bea70$2dee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: Cc: "Vojtech Pavlik" Subject: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Japanese keyboards Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:51:32 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2258 Lines: 42 In thread "Re: Trying to run 2.6.0-test3", Alan Cox replied to me: > > What will it take this time? > > Posting the patch with any luck ? I knew that that would not be sufficient. On 2003.07.24, I think in the days of 2.6.0-test1, junkio@cox.net posted a patch for Japanese PS/2 keyboards. On 2003.08.31, in the days of 2.6.0-test4, I posted a revised patch to include Japanese USB keyboards. 2.6.0-test5 includes neither of them because the keyboard driver maintainers don't personally depend on Japanese keyboards. Since posting has not been sufficient, I beg Mr. Pavlik, just once per release, please try pretending that you might have to depend on a Japanese keyboard. You don't have to use one daily as your colleague Dr. Fabian does. Just twice per release, once in a plain text console and once under X11, please try testing a Japanese PS/2 keyboard and Japanese USB keyboard. In particular the troublesome keys are yen bar and backslash underscore. You don't need a Japanese font. If you use an ASCII font then the keys display as backslash bar and backslash underscore. If you use a Japanese font then the keys display as yen bar and yen underscore. In all cases the ASCII backslash or JIS-Romaji yen character are code point 0x5C. (Don't worry about the labels on the right-hand side of each key, for direct kana input. Less than 0.1% of Japanese and other residents of Japan ever use direct kana input under Monopolysoft Windows, and probably none at all under Linux. When inputting Japanese, common practice is to input the pronunciation in Italian characters and let the OS convert first to kana and then to Kanji. We depend on the labels on the left-hand side of each key, including the two mentioned above. Exception 1: yen and backslash are really the same character even though the keys have different labels. Exception 2: a shifted 0 doesn't really produce a ~ but it is enough that a shifted ^ does so, but it doesn't matter that Linux has added real input for a shifted 0.) - 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/