[9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]

[9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]

[Country Joe]

Bonjour list,


Thanks to Andrey at Calgary University, I have Plan 9 installed
on my Asus F7400 laptop with the French keyboard available
at boot time by pressing F5.

Now, while looking at  the file /sys/src/cmd/usb/hid/kbd.c I was
trying to enter the pound sign # while holding Alt Gr key and
pressing the "3" key but it just gave me the character "3".

On a French PC Keyboard certains characters are obtained
by pressing simultaneously the Alt Gr key (right after the space
bar) and the following upper keyboard keys :

        Pressing & holding  Alt Gr

                                        With         Gives        My 
"Translation"
                                           2            ~               Tild
                                           3            #               
Pound Sign
                                           4            {                
Open brace
                                           5            [               
  Open Square Bracket
                                           6            |               
  Pipe sign
                                           7            `            
     Apostophe
                                           8            \               
  Back Slash
                                           9            ^                
Control Character
                                           0            @              
Elephant's Ear
                                           °            ]               
  Closing Square Bracket
                                           +            }               
  Closing brace

Is there any thing that I may do wrong or may do differently for now on
to have all these characters available for modifying the kdb.c file for
example ?


Thanks for any clue.
Philippe
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Re: [9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]

[boyd, rounin]

> Now, while looking at  the file /sys/src/cmd/usb/hid/kbd.c I was
> trying to enter the pound sign # while holding Alt Gr key and
> pressing the "3" key but it just gave me the character "3".

this is well known. iirc both alt and alt-gr generate 'compose'
and then you can type an arbitrary Rune. this is just wrong.

unfortunately, the kernel has changed so:

   http://www.insultant.net/repo/plan9/kbd.tar

would have to be ported it to 4th ed.

nemo has another solution, but i don't agree with it.

btw: i'm typing this on azerty.

Re: [9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]

[Fco.J.Ballesteros]

>> Now, while looking at  the file /sys/src/cmd/usb/hid/kbd.c I was
>> trying to enter the pound sign # while holding Alt Gr key and
>> pressing the "3" key but it just gave me the character "3".
>
> this is well known. iirc both alt and alt-gr generate 'compose'
> and then you can type an arbitrary Rune. this is just wrong.

With the change in /sys/src/9/pc/kbd.c that comes along with usbhid kbd
you get AltGr generated for the right alt instead of Compose.
Perhaps you didnt integrate that change into your kernel.

Re: [9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]

[Fco.J.Ballesteros]

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Drop me a line off list to let me know what you did and I'll
try to help to get the french kbd working for you.

hth

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From: Country Joe <countryjoe@myrealbox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:03:38 +0000
Message-ID: <3FD4E72A.6080305@myrealbox.com>

Bonjour list,


Thanks to Andrey at Calgary University, I have Plan 9 installed
on my Asus F7400 laptop with the French keyboard available
at boot time by pressing F5.

Now, while looking at  the file /sys/src/cmd/usb/hid/kbd.c I was
trying to enter the pound sign # while holding Alt Gr key and
pressing the "3" key but it just gave me the character "3".

On a French PC Keyboard certains characters are obtained
by pressing simultaneously the Alt Gr key (right after the space
bar) and the following upper keyboard keys :

        Pressing & holding  Alt Gr

                                        With         Gives        My 
"Translation"
                                           2            ~               Tild
                                           3            #               
Pound Sign
                                           4            {                
Open brace
                                           5            [               
  Open Square Bracket
                                           6            |               
  Pipe sign
                                           7            `            
     Apostophe
                                           8            \               
  Back Slash
                                           9            ^                
Control Character
                                           0            @              
Elephant's Ear
                                           °            ]               
  Closing Square Bracket
                                           +            }               
  Closing brace

Is there any thing that I may do wrong or may do differently for now on
to have all these characters available for modifying the kdb.c file for
example ?


Thanks for any clue.
Philippe
//