>Hello,
>> This is a small, but as for me useful patch for
>> drivers/char/keyboard.c. The main idea is using console
>> unicode table to translate unicode keysyms to ascii symbols
>> when in keymap defined some U+xxxx chars, but keyboard in
>> in XLATE mode. For example I do
>>
>> setfont koi8-8x16 -u koi8.uni
>> loadkeys koi8-utf
>>
>> and if I type 'kbd_mode -u' my keyboard generate UTF-8 2-bytes
>> sequences for each russian letter, but if I set 'kbd_mode -a'
>> keyboard generate koi-8 codes for russian letters except of
>> UTF without reloading keymap by loadkeys.
> It looks OK, but I think it should use inverse_translate()
>instead of conv_uni_to_pc().
> The conv_uni_to_pc() function converts Unicode to font encoding
>as opposed to inverse_translate() which is an inversion of
>translate[], therefore it converts Unicode to character set
>used in userland.
Not true. inverse_translate() convert font position
(not unicode) to charset.
That was a first version. In latest release to be
independed from loaded font/console translation I use
inverse_translate(conv_uni_to_pc(unicode_symbol)). There is
only way to be correct in any case.
Look at:
ftp://linux.esc.kharkov.com/pub/Linux/myown/keyboard.patch
SY, Stanislav Voronyi.
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