On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:26:58PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > Remember that in some keyboard you need to press combos in order to > generate some character. Like in Finnish keyboard you press alt-gr + e > in order to generate euro sign (or alt-gr + 5). Also there are > multi-keypress sequences like in order to make '^' this sign you have to > press ctrl + '^' button and when released then press space. If you > happen to press in example 'a' after ctrl + '^' key you get 'â'. And I > do not think this is the only keyboard with this feature. Also there is > those dec input sequences like alt+number sequence. In example alt > (pressed) + '6', '5' you get 'A'.
Do we really want to support all keys (and therefore all minor keyboard variants) out there, or just those needed for metacharacters like '/' and such? > I do not like the idea of using variable for this as it will most likely > require loading of keymap definition form disk. So I would prefer something: > > insmod keymap > keymap /boot/grub/keyboard/fi Seems fine to me. Note, however, that with the information currently exported by e.g. at_keyboard.c it isn't possible to tell when special combinations like "alt-gr + 5" were pressed. There's quite a bit of pending rework for the input/output split (handlers?) and USB keyboards (multiple input sources). Perhaps it'd be better to address this when the fundamentals have been laid out? Btw, what happened to the handlers patch? I thought it was about to be merged. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
