Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:45:36 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp, vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Japanese keyboards
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:00:05PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> > > 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.)
> 
> This is wrong for some keyboards.
> 
> ~ is indeed shifted 0 on my keyboard - shifted ^ is an overbar.
> 
> Also, on my keyboard, - has a U.K. pound symbol as the fourth
> character on the key, (the top-right character).

This discussion is superfluous.
Keyboards differ - there is no way the kernel can guess at
the key label given the scancode.
That is why keymaps exist.
So, if Norman and John have keyboards with different behaviour
that just means that they must load different keymaps.

Andries

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