Bug#374070: keymap broken on ibook G4 Japanese keyboard.
Le Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:17:18PM +0100, Brice Goglin a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> What is the status of the japanese keyboard layout for macintosh? Is it
> still missing in current xkb-data in Etch? The problem was supposed to
> be discussed upstream, is there anything new there?
Hi,
Alas, the maintainer of xkeyboard-config left Debian, and I was relying
on his experimental packages to test new upstream releases. I am not
able to build binary packages by myself with upstream sources: the
current package in Debian has one big monolithic patch, and I do not
know what I should keep or discard.
Subliminal message to the new maintainer: swiching to patch managment
in debian/patches would help a lot. I can try to do this if you are
interested.
To make things even more difficult, I broke my mac keyboard three months
ago, and spend a long time with a PC keyboard in the meantime. I have
bought a happy hacking keyboard for mac recently, but unfortunately, its
keycodes are not the same as the mac keyboard, for instance the left alt
sends zenkaku/hankaku (I am very disapointed, but I still prefer it over
the enormous keyboards from Apple).
So definitely, the keyboard will be missing in Etch. However, I am quite
confident that jp106 is quite a good aproximation if you do not use the
eisu and kana keys. The support for these keys has been added in
upstream's sources, as documented in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8503. If it works, the next
step is to make applications such as anthy aware of the keys.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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