Re: [9fans] keyboard maps

[Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>]

Pavel Mihaylov wrote:
> In kbd.h Altgr is defined as 0x38 which disagrees with the other
> shift-state keys (Shift, Ctrl, etc). This is apparently the reason to
> use variable gr, needed to differentiate between Altgr and simply 0x38
> (which is actually '8').

IIRC this is so that the 'compose' keys on either side of the space bar
do the same thing.  On keyboards where Alg-Gr acts as a second 'shift'
this is a bad idea.

> I've changed the definition of Altgr to Spec|0x67

Yes that's right.  I'd also change Spec too:

    Spec=		0xF800,		/* Unicode private space */
    Altgr=		Spec|0x67,

If Spec is 0x80 it causes all sorts of woe when you hit Latin-1 characters.

> Btw, isn't it wise to rename Latin from kbd.h to something more meaningful,
> such as Compose, since composing is used to enter much more than Roman-script
> based characters?

Sure would, as it is confusing and actually indicates the collection of a multi
character sequence, which may not be related to 'latin' characters at all.