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Re: Japanese keyboard: Yen and closing bracket.



Hi , 

I can use Japanese Apple Keyboard .
I use it on Macbook .

My xorg setting is

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbVariant" "jp106"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "jp106"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "jp"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection

I can use underscore and bar because of this setting. 

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:09:41 +0900
Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> wrote:

> Le Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:40:45PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu a écrit :
> > Hi .
> > 
> > 2006/10/12, Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>:
> > >Le Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:10:38AM +0530, Prem Setu a écrit :
> > 
> > >
> > >Thank you very much for the information.
> > >
> > >So the current summary of the situation is that setting the layout as
> > >"jp" with no additional information leaves the "yen" and "]" keys
> > >broken, whereas specifying the model and the variant to jp106 rescues
> > >the "]" key.
> > >
> > 
> > Are you using the keyboard of which PC ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the standard keyborard of G5 iMacs, as well as a standard PC
> keyboard bought in BicCamera.
> 
> In the meantime, the keyboard issues are being solved upstream in
> freedesktop.org. Here is the relevant link:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8503
> 
> One thing which is being worked out is the behaviour of the Yen key.
> Currently, it outputs a backslash, for reasons related to old versions
> of MS Windows. On modern keyboards, the backslash is also available with
> the ろ/_ key, so a new keyboard variant is being introduced, in which
> the Yen key outputs a Yen symbol.
> 
> PS: I made a test this evening, and it seems that it is not necessary to
> declare Variant "jp106" to have the keyboard working correctly. Only
> Model "jp106" seems to do the job.
> 
> 

regards ,
 Nobuhiro



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