[Spice-devel] Support for non-English keyboard layouts in aSPICE and Opaque

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I really didn't like the idea of releasing Opaque (the oVirt/RHEV VM console
> Android client) into production supporting only English (QWERTY), so I decided
> to implement a workaround for the existing inability to send Unicode directly to
> the OS of the VMs. It's not perfect, because it requires users to choose their
> layout themselves correctly, and it requires many layouts to be supported in
> order to approach universal usefulness. However, I expect that interested
> people will contribute keyboard layout map files for their own layouts once I
> document the final format and release the documentation with the source code.

I also hit that problem in spiceterm,. I ended up using the qemu keymap files from
/usr/share/kvm/keymaps/. They are quite easy to parse.