Re: git: 19eaa01beaba - main - Append Keyboard Layout specified option for using VNC. Part two: Append bhyve -K option for specified keyboard layout with layout setting files every languages. Since the cmd option '-k' was used in the meantime it was changed to '-K'

From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:34:27 UTC 
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:31:40 +0100
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:

> 
>  Hello Michael,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:50:17 GMT
> Michael Reifenberger <mr@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > The branch main has been updated by mr:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=19eaa01beaba68ed4c70c44127955f5c9b331cb9
> > 
> > commit 19eaa01beaba68ed4c70c44127955f5c9b331cb9
> > Author:     Michael Reifenberger <mr@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2022-01-20 22:44:04 +0000
> > Commit:     Michael Reifenberger <mr@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2022-01-20 22:49:27 +0000
> > 
> >     Append Keyboard Layout specified option for using VNC.
> >     Part two: Append bhyve -K option for specified keyboard layout
> >     with layout setting files every languages.
> >     Since the cmd option '-k' was used in the meantime
> >     it was changed to '-K'
> >     
> >     PR:             246121
> >     Submitted by:   koinec@yahoo.co.jp
> >     Reviewed by:    grehan@
> 
>  It doesn't appears to have been accepted.
> 
> >     Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29473
> >     
> >     MFC after:      4 weeks
> 
>  The files aren't taggued correctly for pkgbase but I'll fix that in a
> bit.
> 
>  May I ask why this format was chosen ?
>  How was it generated ?
>  I'm not sure what do they contain too, is the first column the keycode
> and the other the ascii code ? If yes then there is at least a problem
> in the fr layout where the keycode for 'A'/'a' is 0x15 while in reality
> it's 0x14. 

       0x16 (sorry)

> Also the fr file have a comment that says "fr : French
> French Canadian (accent keys) Swiss-French", what does this means ? All
> three have different keyboard layout so I don't see how this should
> work.
> 
>  We also already have two (at least) keymap files installed, one for
> syscon and one for vt, re-using them (or modifying vt/sc and bhyve to
> use one keymap file) would really be better.
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>


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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>