A brief purist's rant on keymaps and keysyms:
X11 keymaps were originally merely meant to represent what symbols are
printed/engraved on the keycaps of the keyboard hardware used (see
Appendix A of the X11 protocol specification).
Is the proposed Urdu keyboard layout already used by any keyboard
Hi
I would disagree with you, Mark. There can countries/languages/layouts
which were never implemented in hardware - and still it makes sense to
have corresponding layouts (or at least variants). I would not bound the
word keymap to the politics of the keyboard vendors (some countries
can just
Hi,
Hi
I would disagree with you, Mark. There can
countries/languages/layouts which were never
implemented in hardware - and still
it makes sense to have corresponding layouts
(or at least variants)
Me too.
There are no any hardware keyboard for Turkmen
language(My language). Their
Kakilik Group wrote on 2004-09-01 15:42 UTC:
There are no any hardware keyboard for Turkmen
language(My language). Their alphabet is too
young (1991-...).
Does the keysymdef.h file that we are currently revising on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/keysymdef.h
cover all the characters
hi,
yes i also fully agree with Sergey. What definition Markus gave us
about keymaps is of old times. And these definition may change to
facilitate the goals without changing the concepts.
There may never exist a hardware keyboard for Urdu, because mostly
english hardware version is used
