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

[Dietmar Maurer]

> We're discussing (for example) a German user who has picked QWERTZ inside
> their VM so that when they're connecting from their laptop which also has
> QWERTZ, everything is sane.
> Now, let's say the user connects from their Android device to the same VM while
> on the road. If the VM is set to use QWERTZ, but I am using the "common"
> layout file that is under discussion, what will happen is that when the user
> presses the letter "z" on their device, they will get unicode 0x7a (regardless of
> the layout they're using on their device). If we use the "common" layout file to
> figure out the scancode for this letter, we get back scancode 0x2c. However, this
> scancode will generate a letter "y" on the VM side.

No, the scancode for 'z' is defined in the 'de' file!

> I hope this clears your questions up. I think you're solving a fundamentally
> different problem in spiceterm to the one I'm solving in Opaque/aSPICE. Do you
> not agree?

I cannot see the difference.