On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > The tests I have done from this report on the german keyboard seemed
> > fine by just updating.
>
> I've also done some testing with this, mostly with Dutch and German
> keymaps, and AFAICT all issues are indeed solved now. Really great!
Great. :)
> There is one thing though. If I use the new keyboard-chooser without the
> new directfb, I see a regression on three keys with the Dutch keymap:
>
> US layout Dutch layout Result w/o directfb
> ; / : + / ± + / +
> ` / ~ @ / § @ / @
> = / + ° / ~ <nothing> / ~
>
> I get correct results with current unstable versions, and also if I only
> use new directfb. Conclusion is that we need new directfb before
> kbd-chooser can be uploaded. I'll add a note in the changelog for that.
That is how the code in DirectFB works: there is four levels (normal,
shift, alt-gr, alt-gr+shift) and there is a fallback on the previous
level if the key is unknown.
As the Linux kernel will not reply to "what it is the symbol for
this key?" when the symbol is unicode and the keyboard is not in unicode
mode, that is the expected behaviour without the patch.
So indeed, we need the patched DirectFB if we want to have unicode
symbols working.
Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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