On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> > It seems very unlikely that you cannot handle Czech with all
> > combinations of 8 keys pressed, and need 9.
> 
> A czech keyboard has the letters 'escrzyaie' with accents on the number
> row of keys. With a Shift, they are supposed to produce the original
> numbers, but with a CapsLock, they're supposed to produce the uppercase.
> With a right alt or one of three czech dead keys they should produce
> the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*() symbols.
> 
> It's kind of logical, kind of stupid, but anyway it's the national standard.
> 
> You can't do that currently. The main problem is that CapsLock is
> hardcoded to work as a Shift on keys and you can't make it work
> differently for normal letter keys and for the upper row of keys.

I think the fallacy in that reasoning is the idea that the key
labeled CapsLock has to be bound to the kernel function named capslock.

Andries
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