On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:10:10 +0200 Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been issues with non-latin1 diacritics and unicode. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 > > Git 759448f459234bfcf34b82471f0dba77a9aca498 `Kernel utf-8 handling' > partly resolved it by adding conversion between diacritics and > unicode. The patch below goes further by just turning diacritics into > unicode, hence providing better future support. The kbd support can be > fetched from > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12313 > > This was tested in all of latin1, latin9, latin2 and unicode with french > and czech dead keys. > > -- > > Turn the kernel accent_table into unicode, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR > and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR. > > New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit > _input_. No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially > sparse and large. This changes the kernel ABI a bit. The KDGKBDIACR ioctl (and friends) now return different data. What are the implications of this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
