Chris Heath wrote: > Notice that with my patch (p3_conv_8bit_to_uni.patch > at http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html ), > the "dumpkeys | loadkeys --unicode" is not needed at all. :-)
If p3_conv_8bit_to_uni.patch uses _8bit_ keymaps in the kernel, converting it to Unicode at key pressing time, then it is not so good solution, sorry :-/ It seems to me that 8bit keymaps in the kernel is generally a bad practice, because the keyboard charset trouble will remain despite p3_conv_8bit_to_uni.patch if I would change one 8bit charset to another _8bit_, e.g. KOI8-R to Windows-1251 . IMHO: kernel keyboard conversion Unicode->8bit will be a good way to 8bit when needed, but kernel keyboard conversion 8bit->something is a bad way to something because 8bit keymaps are not labelled with codepage when loaded to keyboard.c, so keymap's codepage is undefined. -- qq~~~~\ Linux console internationalization http://www.comtv.ru/~av95/linux/console/ / /\ \ \ /_/ / Please, don't send me explicit copies when posting to linux-utf8 : \____/ I'm subscribed ! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
