Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:28:16 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: Yuri <yuri@aetern.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt and keyboard accents Message-ID: <ee7b6209-05d4-438c-87bb-b9273e4d778e@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <842fe9a7-ec72-7557-72b0-4054cf770a5d@aetern.org> References: <70f53d17-46eb-c299-1a93-bf28858c1685@aetern.org> <c316280c-8dd8-b969-e623-9fcadab04dd1@selasky.org> <842fe9a7-ec72-7557-72b0-4054cf770a5d@aetern.org>
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On 1/29/23 09:48, Yuri wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 1/29/23 01:54, Yuri wrote:
>>> Looking into an issue with accents input for vt and cz (so
>>> /usr/share/vt/keymaps/cz.kbd) keyboard where some of the accents are
>>> working and other result weird unrelated characters output.
>>>
>>> Checking kbdcontrol -d output, there is an obvious difference with
>>> keymap contents -- all mappings are trimmed down to 1 byte after reading:
>>>
>>> kbdcontrol:
>>> dacu 180 ( 180 180 ) ( 'S' 'Z' ) ( 'Z' 'y' ) ( 's' '[' )
>>> ( 'z' 'z' ) ( 'R' 'T' ) ( 'A' 193 ) ( 'L' '9' )
>>> ( 'C' 006 ) ( 'E' 201 ) ( 'I' 205 ) ( 'N' 'C' )
>>> ( 'O' 211 ) ( 'U' 218 ) ( 'Y' 221 ) ( 'r' 'U' )
>>> ( 'a' 225 ) ( 'l' ':' ) ( 'c' 007 ) ( 'e' 233 )
>>> ( 'i' 237 ) ( 'n' 'D' ) ( 'o' 243 ) ( 'u' 250 )
>>> ( 'y' 253 )
>>>
>>> keymap:
>>> dacu 0xb4 ( 0xb4 0xb4 ) ( 'S' 0x015a ) ( 'Z' 0x0179 )
>>> ( 's' 0x015b )
>>> ( 'z' 0x017a ) ( 'R' 0x0154 ) ( 'A' 0xc1 )
>>> ( 'L' 0x0139 )
>>> ( 'C' 0x0106 ) ( 'E' 0xc9 ) ( 'I' 0xcd )
>>> ( 'N' 0x0143 )
>>> ( 'O' 0xd3 ) ( 'U' 0xda ) ( 'Y' 0xdd )
>>> ( 'r' 0x0155 )
>>> ( 'a' 0xe1 ) ( 'l' 0x013a ) ( 'c' 0x0107 )
>>> ( 'e' 0xe9 )
>>> ( 'i' 0xed ) ( 'n' 0x0144 ) ( 'o' 0xf3 )
>>> ( 'u' 0xfa )
>>> ( 'y' 0xfd )
>>>
>>> Source of the problem is the following definition in sys/sys/kbio.h:
>>>
>>> struct acc_t {
>>> u_char accchar;
>>> u_char map[NUM_ACCENTCHARS][2];
>>> };
>>>
>>> While the keymaps were converted to have the unicode characters for vt
>>> in the commit below, the array to store them (map) was missed, or was
>>> there a reason for this?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> commit 7ba08f814546ece02e0193edc12cf6eb4d5cb8d4
>>> Author: Stefan Eßer <se@FreeBSD.org>
>>> Date: Sun Aug 17 19:54:21 2014 +0000
>>>
>>> Attempt at converting the SYSCONS keymaps to Unicode for use with
>>> NEWCONS.
>>> I have spent many hours comparing source and destination formats,
>>> and hope
>>> to have caught the most severe conversion errors.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> I have tried the following patch and it allows me to enter all accents
>>> documented in the keymap, though I must admit I'm not sure it does not
>>> have hidden issues:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/sys/sys/kbio.h b/sys/sys/kbio.h
>>> index 7f17bda76c5..fffeb63e226 100644
>>> --- a/sys/sys/kbio.h
>>> +++ b/sys/sys/kbio.h
>>> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ typedef struct okeymap okeymap_t;
>>>
>>> struct acc_t {
>>> u_char accchar;
>>> - u_char map[NUM_ACCENTCHARS][2];
>>> + int map[NUM_ACCENTCHARS][2];
>>> };
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using "int" for unicode characters is probably good for now. Your patch
>> looks good, but please also consider the "umlaut" case while at it
>> (multiple characters that become one)!
>
> I think umlauts are already part of "accents" (duml keyword), e.g. in
> cz.kbd:
>
> duml 0xa8 ( 0xa8 0xa8 ) ( 'A' 0xc4 ) ( 'E' 0xcb )
> ( 'O' 0xd6 )
> ( 'U' 0xdc ) ( 'a' 0xe4 ) ( 'e' 0xeb )
> ( 'o' 0xf6 )
> ( 'u' 0xfc )
>
> So pressing Alt+Shift and "=/+" key, and then pressing one of AEOUaeou
> keys would produce ÄËÖÜäëöü, respectively, and it currently works as all
> of the ÄËÖÜäëöü characters can be written as single-byte unicode.
>
> And the following dcar (that is, "caron") characters are all broken as
> they need at least 2 bytes, pressing Shift and "=/+" key, and any of the
> LSTZlstzCEDNRcednrUu would print nothing at all, produce garbage, or
> print some control character (last byte only):
>
> dcar 0x02c7 ( 0x02c7 0x02c7 ) ( 'L' 0x013d ) ( 'S' 0x0160 )
> ( 'T' 0x0164 )
> ( 'Z' 0x017d ) ( 'l' 0x013e ) ( 's' 0x0161 )
> ( 't' 0x0165 )
> ( 'z' 0x017e ) ( 'C' 0x010c ) ( 'E' 0x011a )
> ( 'D' 0x010e )
> ( 'N' 0x0147 ) ( 'R' 0x0158 ) ( 'c' 0x010d )
> ( 'e' 0x011b )
> ( 'd' 0x010f ) ( 'n' 0x0148 ) ( 'r' 0x0159 )
> ( 'U' 0x016e )
> ( 'u' 0x016f )
Hi Yuri,
Do you happen to know if we currently support these Norwegian-only umlauts?
For example written as "umlauts":
å b̊ c̊
Only the single-characters å and Å are of interest in the Norwegian
language.
--HPS
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