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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Codrv: Request for keymaps
Message-ID: <1993Apr29.084840.17659@gmd.de>
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: keymap,keycap
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
Nntp-Posting-Host: mururoa
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 08:48:40 GMT
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I still need some national keymaps for use with the codrv console driver,
or at least response from users who used the keymaps that are marked
'untested' in /usr/share/misc/keycap with success.
Reason: The keymapping scheme of codrv will be part of 386bsd-0.2, and
the installation disk should already have support for national keyboards.
From the time the first codrv version (keycap) had been released, numerous
people from all over the world have retrieved the code, but only few
persons have already replied and contributed their own preferred map.
I have plenty maps for German, Finish, Swedish, Russian keyboards, but
would like to have response from the following countries (but not restricted
to):
Canada (French part)
Czech republic (with font)
Denmark
France
Greece (with font)
India (preferably with a bdf font)
Israel (font)
Italy
Norway
Poland (with font)
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland (several maps)
United Kingdom
other not here mentioned countries whose keyboard differs from the US one.
Please try to adapt to a common and generally accepted standard
(ISO-LATIN-[123456789] for instance, if it is used), rather than DOS special
features (code pages) and proprietary encoding schemes.
There are probably differently mapped keyboards out there. I know this at least
for UK, Italy, France and Switzerland.
Also, several national keyboards have the common C characters {[\|]}^~
in uncomfortable places (there are national characters instead). If you wrote a
better mapping for your keyboard which is not too strange, I am interested in this,
too.
Furthermore, there are keyboards with 84/101/102 (or another number) which slighty
differ. If you think you have an uncommon keyboard of this kind, send me your
map as well.
Finally, if there are key semantics that cannot be generated by codrv yet, but
are necessary for your keyboard (such like a special capslock key for the
function keys only, for instance), I also want to know.
Please don't think that another one has already sent a suitable map which is same
to yours. It is better for me to get 100 french maps than none at all.
Please don't post keymaps here, send them to one of the following addresses:
Holger.Veit@gmd.de
veit@borneo.gmd.de
veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
Holger
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