From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Foreign keyboard layout
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:52:51 +0200."
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From: Quinn Dunkan <quinn@yak.ugcs.caltech.edu>
Message-Id: <20010919165255.1401E90157@yak.ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:52:50 -0700
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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>
> > iirc, there is a driver that has a mapping file which you
> > can read/write tuples of the form:
> >
> >     shift scancode rune
> >
> Thanks. Please, do you remember what driver and/or file(s) are you talking
> about?
> I've found hardcoded keyboard mapping in both:
> 	/sys/src/9/$cputype/kbd.c       (machine-dependent kernel code)
> 	/sys/src/libcontrol/keyboard.c
> Maybe there are other files like these.

There's a program that provides its own /dev/cons that translates from the old
/dev/cons and provides /dev/kbd to configure the translation (you write
old_unicode new_unicode pairs to it).  I use it to get a dvorak layout.  It
was posted to the list a while back--take a look at the archives.  I believe
it was called kbd.c or something.  Unfortunately I managed to lose my copy of
the src, and I can't find it in the archives or the wiki.

It doesn't work perfectly, but it's useful and small and doesn't require
messing with the kernel.