Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Mon Nov 16 2009 - 18:15:30 EST


Alexey Dobriyan, le Tue 17 Nov 2009 02:05:23 +0300, a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:54:29PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 23:27:38 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > 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.
> >
> > One way to go would be to decrete that keysyms between 0xD800 and 0xE000
>
> And this is going to help me with U+042F/U+044F how?

This way:

diff --git a/drivers/char/keyboard.c b/drivers/char/keyboard.c
index 737be95..264db17 100644
--- a/drivers/char/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/char/keyboard.c
@@ -1258,6 +1258,15 @@ static void kbd_keycode(unsigned int keycode, int down, int hw_raw)
type = KTYP(keysym);

if (type < 0xf0) {
+ if (keysym >= 0xD800 && keysym < 0xE000) {
+ /* Surrogates in Unicode, here KT_LETTER variants of unicode U+0000-U+07FF */
+ keysym -= 0xD800;
+ if (vc_kbd_led(kbd, VC_CAPSLOCK)) {
+ key_map = key_maps[shift_final ^ (1 << KG_SHIFT)];
+ if (key_map)
+ keysym = key_map[keycode];
+ }
+ }
param.value = keysym;
if (atomic_notifier_call_chain(&keyboard_notifier_list, KBD_UNICODE, &param) == NOTIFY_STOP)
return;

Which BTW is correct while the proposed patch earlier wasn't: the
param.value needs to be the final keysym.

But again, that only solves the problem of the limited range
U+0000-U+0800 and doesn't solve the é/É french keyboard problem.

Adding an interface to change the modifier lock / LED assignation would
on the other hand permit kbd and console-setup to properly do proper
capslock processing correctly.

Samuel
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