Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:19:06 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: small addition to keyboard driver propose with patch |
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Stanislav V. Voronyi wrote:
> setfont koi8-8x16 -u koi8.uni > loadkeys koi8-utf > > and if I type 'kbd_mode -u' my keyboard generate UTF-8 2-bytes > sequences for each russian letter, but if I set 'kbd_mode -a' > keyboard generate koi-8 codes for russian letters except of > UTF without reloading keymap by loadkeys. > > Is this usefull enough to be included to official > kernel ?
It adds a good amount of flexibility, maybe we can even extend it to transparent support for dvorak keyboards (incl. sysrq and stuff) or other nice things.
I'm not a console guru however, so I suspect there might be something wrong with my reasoning :)
cheers,
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