Bonjour Denis, I have downloaded xkb-data 0.8-14 and played with commands such as:
setxkbmap -rules "xorg" -model "macintosh" -layout "jp,ca" -variant ",multi" -option compose:rwin -option grp:lwin_toggle I am using an iMac with a Apple A1048 keyboard. (see http://charles.plessy.org/mac/A1048.html or http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/images/tn1152_001.gif for something similar in spirit) This is a Japanese keyboard, and the default in Debian seems to make it output japanese syllabic characters (katakanas). While it seems to make sense, I have to say that I have never seen a japanese person inputing japanese that way. I think that it would really make sense to make it output ascii characters by default. Nevertheless, I checked that the input and output were corrsponding, and found the following discrepancies: - The "ro (ろ)" key (code 211) does not input a JIS underscore when pressed in combination with shift. - The "mu (む)" key (code 35) outputs "\" or "|" depending wether it is pressed with shift or not, as if it were from keyboard made for the USA. - The comma key of the numeric pad (code 134) does not work at all. - Also, what is printed on the keyboard is hiragana, not katakanas (they have a 1 to 1 correspondance, but their apparance differs, for instance ro and mu are ロ and ム in katakana. - Lastly, the two keys which are the closest to the spacebar, whose official name I do not know but guess to be "eigo" and "kana" have no effect. I guess that they are supposed to do something, such as swiching between japanese and ascii characters. The default behaviour of japanese keyboards on most computers running MS-Windows or Mac OSX is to output ascii characters with a qwerty layout a bit different from the one used in the USA. This allows to input translitterated japanese. If you explain me how to activate this (is there a variant?), I can check wether it reproduces well what is written on the keys... This is definitely more important than direct "kana" input, as it gives acces to slashes, pipes, and other vital symbols under unix. Unfortunately, they are the ones where the USA and japanese keyboards differ... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
