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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paravirt framebuffer backend tools [2/5]
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Steven Smith wrote:
>>> If the SDL viewer is using X11 configured with french keyboard, and the
>>> virtual
>>> machine is configured with US keyboard, the used keymap will be the US one.
>>> So
>>> when I press 'A' on my keyboard I will have 'Q'.
>> That kind of sucks.
>
> There is no way around that.
>
>> Not being able to produce every character sucks
>> more, but having to configure the keymap in every VM isn't much
>> better.
>
> For sane i18n kbd support some translation must be done.
>
> Make the guest think he has an US keyboard and do the translation on the
> host isn't going to work. An US keyboard hasn't an 'Ä' key for example,
> so you wouldn't be able to type that character. Also some characters
> are arranged in a different way, for example on a us keyboard you have
> ';' and ':' sharing one key, whereas on a german one ';' lives together
> with ','. That isn't going to work with host-side translation too.
>
> Thus we *must* do the translation in the guest. And we must do it in
> the guest *only*, otherwise we'll end up with the translation happening
> twice which becomes even more messy.
>
> Sending scancodes not keysyms is the only solution to that problem. Really.
Thank you ;-)
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
Laurent
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