From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 16:25:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monterosa.urbanet.ch (monterosa.urbanet.ch [195.202.193.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E522514E05 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch) Received: (qmail 23258 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 00:24:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?195.202.204.137?) (195.202.204.137) by monterosa.urbanet.ch with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 00:24:52 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:20:48 +0100 Subject: Re : How to create a keymap for iso 8859-9??? From: "Ahmed Benani" To: Greg Lehey , Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <19991206002453.E522514E05@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG STOP SENDING YOUR MATERIAL. I RECEIVE OVER TWO HUNDRED MESSAGES PER DAY AND I NEVER SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR LITS: PLEASE STOP SENDING MESSAGES AHMED BENANI, ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch --------- ---------- >De=A0: Greg Lehey >=C0 : Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Objet=A0: Re: How to create a keymap for iso 8859-9??? >Date=A0: Dim 5 d=E9c 1999 23:51 > >If you want me to reply to a message, please include me in the To: or >Cc: list. You should include -questions too if it's a followup to a >message in -questions, but if I see my name flagged, I'll give it more >attention. > >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 I= SO >> 8859-9 but I could not find any information about the key map for Turkis= h >> keyboard. Now I can do it manually by trying the keys in Windows and the= n >> apply to the keymap in FreeBSd but it is very time consuming and I do no= t >> 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 '=3D' '+' nop nop '=3D' '+' 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 >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message