Le Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:17:18PM +0100, Brice Goglin a écrit : > Hi, > > What is the status of the japanese keyboard layout for macintosh? Is it > still missing in current xkb-data in Etch? The problem was supposed to > be discussed upstream, is there anything new there?
Hi, Alas, the maintainer of xkeyboard-config left Debian, and I was relying on his experimental packages to test new upstream releases. I am not able to build binary packages by myself with upstream sources: the current package in Debian has one big monolithic patch, and I do not know what I should keep or discard. Subliminal message to the new maintainer: swiching to patch managment in debian/patches would help a lot. I can try to do this if you are interested. To make things even more difficult, I broke my mac keyboard three months ago, and spend a long time with a PC keyboard in the meantime. I have bought a happy hacking keyboard for mac recently, but unfortunately, its keycodes are not the same as the mac keyboard, for instance the left alt sends zenkaku/hankaku (I am very disapointed, but I still prefer it over the enormous keyboards from Apple). So definitely, the keyboard will be missing in Etch. However, I am quite confident that jp106 is quite a good aproximation if you do not use the eisu and kana keys. The support for these keys has been added in upstream's sources, as documented in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8503. If it works, the next step is to make applications such as anthy aware of the keys. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan
