Keld Simonsen wrote: > > How do we fix this in the keyboard standards and how do we get the fix > > onto the market? Any suggestions? > > It is really hard to get something done. What we can do is something > with X. Getting the physical layout is much harder. Unless you > want to split the keyboard and take off the keys and rearrange them. > Could be done. Costs some money. But you can do it in a small > scale and then try to pull it off in the big. But try to think > of DVORAC keyboards, they never took off.
Try to think of the Windows keys on the other hand ... > I have tried to persuade > Cherry to introduce some plug-and-play indification so the > keyborad could identify itself when asked, but without luck yet. > Everything else nowadays identifies itself on a system. I'm typing this on a USB keyboard, which identifies its layout (well, actually more a sort of keyboard-specific country code, nothing really well-engineered; complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the operating system. http://www.usb.org/developers/docs.html Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
