Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:20:48 +0100 From: "Ahmed Benani" <ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re : How to create a keymap for iso 8859-9??? Message-ID: <19991206002453.E522514E05@hub.freebsd.org>
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>De : Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
>À : Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Objet : Re: How to create a keymap for iso 8859-9???
>Date : Dim 5 déc 1999 23:51
>
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>On Saturday, 4 December 1999 at 9:22:12 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> On Friday, 26 November 1999 at 19:47:36 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>> How can I find information about keyboard scan codes?
>>>
>>> Look in the sources. You'll also probably find stuff in books on PC
>>> hardware.
>>
>> My problem is a little bit different. I have found out that FreeBSD
>> does not have support for ISO-8859-9 character set. Which is consisting of
>> Turkish characters. I could find information about character set and I
>> could change the required characters to make a font which comlies with ISO
>> 8859-9 but I could not find any information about the key map for Turkish
>> keyboard. Now I can do it manually by trying the keys in Windows and then
>> apply to the keymap in FreeBSd but it is very time consuming and I do not
>> know if I can put everything to the right places.
>
>Do you have a Turkish keyboard? Does it also show the US key layout?
>If so, it's not very difficult.
>
>> Is there any place for document you know which clearly defines which key
>> produces which characters with which key combinations ? (For example
>> ALT-4 should produce $ sign)
>
>Yes, that's in the keymap definition. Look at
>/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd, which defines the standard
>layout. You would want to create a tr.iso.kbd for your layout.
>
>Here's an excerpt.
>
># alt
># scan cntrl alt alt cntrl lock
># code base shift cntrl shift alt shift cntrl shift state
># ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 000 nop nop nop nop nop nop nop nop O
> 001 esc esc esc esc esc esc debug esc O
> 002 '1' '!' nop nop '1' '!' nop nop O
> 003 '2' '@' nul nul '2' '@' nul nul O
> 004 '3' '#' nop nop '3' '#' nop nop O
> 005 '4' '$' nop nop '4' '$' nop nop O
> 006 '5' '%' nop nop '5' '%' nop nop O
> 007 '6' '^' rs rs '6' '^' rs rs O
> 008 '7' '&' nop nop '7' '&' nop nop O
> 009 '8' '*' nop nop '8' '*' nop nop O
> 010 '9' '(' nop nop '9' '(' nop nop O
> 011 '0' ')' nop nop '0' ')' nop nop O
> 012 '-' '_' us us '-' '_' us us O
> 013 '=' '+' nop nop '=' '+' nop nop O
> 014 bs bs del del bs bs del del O
> 015 ht btab nop nop ht btab nop nop O
> 016 'q' 'Q' dc1 dc1 'q' 'Q' dc1 dc1 C
> 017 'w' 'W' etb etb 'w' 'W' etb etb C
> 018 'e' 'E' enq enq 'e' 'E' enq enq C
> 019 'r' 'R' dc2 dc2 'r' 'R' dc2 dc2 C
> 020 't' 'T' dc4 dc4 't' 'T' dc4 dc4 C
> 021 'y' 'Y' em em 'y' 'Y' em em C
> 022 'u' 'U' nak nak 'u' 'U' nak nak C
> 023 'i' 'I' ht ht 'i' 'I' ht ht C
> 024 'o' 'O' si si 'o' 'O' si si C
> 025 'p' 'P' dle dle 'p' 'P' dle dle C
>
>The scan code (which in decimal, not octal, despite the leading 0)
>represents the key. The next column describes the character generated
>by the key alone. The column after that describes the character
>generated with the key and the shift key. The column after that
>describes the character generated with the key and the control key.
>The column after that describes the character generated with the key
>and the control and shift keys, and so on. The last column specifies
>whether the CapsLock key applies to this character or not.
>
>To change this, just change the characters which are generated by the
>key. For example, key 21 is 'y' in the USA, but 'z' in Germany. The
>German keymap contains:
>
> 021 'z' 'Z' sub sub 'z' 'Z' sub sub C
>
>Note that the control characters have changed too: 'sub' is the ASCII
>SUB control character, ^Z. If you leave this as dc4, you'll have the
>bizarre situation where the key generates 'z' by itself, but ^Y with
>the control key.
>
>> Also how can I submit the product to FreeBSD group so that it can be
>> included in future releases?
>
>Send me the keymap when it's ready, and I'll commit it.
>
>Greg
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