Danilo Segan wrote:
> > I like the idea. While working on my proposal, I thought that a main
> > keymap per script was the way to go. Have a latin, cyrillic, greek,
> > gujarati base, and change from there (qwerty, azerty, etc.).
> >
>
> At least cyrillic keyboards differ too much for this to work -- eg.
> there are many "phonetic" keyboards (which are similar with english
> ones based on the "sound") and there are completely different ones (a
> standard Russian I believe to be an example of this).
That gives at least two *basic* layouts for Cyrillic, probably less than
a handfull *basic* layouts for Cyrillic (there being two [that I know
of] for Latin). The reast would be per language modifications of that.
...
> Isn't a "keycodes" directory the right place for "hardware"
> stuff? This
> should already be the case, unless I'm missing something.
There are higher level differences, like that many Sun keyboards have
some special function keys on the left side of the keyboard, Apple's
numeric keypad has an "="-key; Apple has two OPT keys, etc.
/kent k
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