Some minor questions related to xkb.

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

Hmm, nevermind, i read the **** sourcecode and figured it out, already
wrote the keymap, just need to go over it for bugs before i submit it.


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:53:21 +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody, just began writing a keymap for my iBook and had some
> questions pop up, not really sure if this is the right mailing list
> but i've been lurking here for a while and people generally seem to
> send general questions regarding pretty much everything here.
> 
> It concerns modifiers, through testing i've figured out how to modify
> Key and key+shift thus:
> 
> <AE01> = { [ 1, bar ] }; which produces "1" when i press AE01 and "|"
> when i press AE01+Shift.
> 
> What i need to know is how to add more modifiers,  so for example i
> could specify in some file what when i write:
> 
> { [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ] } that a plain key press would be "1", +shift =
> "2", +lalt = "3" and +lalt+ctrl = "4".
> 
> I would need the following modifiers:
> *Caps lock ( almost identical to shift )
> *Shift
> *FN ( i'm not really sure if this is handled by hardware rather than
> software (not at the machine now))
> *Num Lock  ( almost identical to FN )
> *CTRL
> *LALT
> Combo modifiers
> LALT+SHIFT
> LALT+CAPS LOCK
> 
> It appears that "3" currently is RALT, since this is a iBook it
> doesn't have that key that needs to be changed to LALT, also i would
> need to specify these other modifiers somewhere.
> 
> Furthermore i have another question regarding how the key maps work internally.
> 
> All the keymaps except the us ones seem to be "diff" key maps - that
> is they specify the differences between them and a stripped down us
> keymap, since i use macintosh this loads symbols/macintosh/us rather
> than symbols/us.
> 
> Are there any other things that are "implied" i.e. other files that
> are loaded by default.
> 
> And another thing, i found a directory ( cant remember the name now )
> which cointains a very helpful list that maps symbols to names, like |
> to bar and æ to aelig ( or something similar ) however it had
> en_US.UTF-8 and other subdirectories for different character sets, how
> would i go about configuring my keymap to be UTF-8 rather than say
> ISO-8859-1 since i need to use some unicode-only symbols.
>