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bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard
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Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:37:13 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:46:05PM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> keyboards define the ISO key identically:
> Base → <
> Shift → >
> Ctrl → FS=^\
>
> There is no special binding for any other key (including any Alt).
> Both keyboards look as having the bit KLLF_ALTGR (sp?) defined (but
> probably MSKLC would lie about this!).
Explanation for enquiring minds:
================================
OK, the reason for a peculiar behaviour of these keys is that they are
SECONDARY keypresses which produce the same character. So:
• The “more bullet-proofish” branch in my patch cannot handle such
keyspresses, and
• the fallback (“to assume that every modifier keys DID contribute¹⁾
to the generation of the character”) turned out to be too
simple-minded (for this unexpectedly frequent situation).
¹⁾ On Windows, for typical layouts, Alt (NOT AltGr!) and Win
modifiers would not affect the generated character.
This behaviour of layouts is a little bit more widespread than what I
expected. So far I found following pairs:
Primary Secondary Generate
Czech: AltGr-Q, AltGr-W ISO, Shift-ISO \, |
Croat: AltGr-Q, AltGr-W US-\, US-| \, |
Croat: AltGr-., AltGr-, ISO, Shift-ISO <, >
Slovak: AltGr-z AltGr-, >
Slovak: AltGr-. AltGr-ISO <
C-Y: US-/, US-| ISO, Shift-ISO \, |
(The last row is for Czech-QUERTY, but also for most US-compatible
keyboards.) Here US-foo means “the keypress producing ‘foo’ on US
keyboard”.
Also, on Czech-QUERTY, the following characters allow AltGr access
(“A-” below) at the “US layout locations”; together with
Czech-layout-specific keypresses, this creates duplication as (AFAIK):
Primary: US-! US-` A-US-_ A-US-: US-< US-- A-US--
Secondary: A-US-+ A-US-; US-? US-> A-US-? A-US-= US-/
Produce: + ; _ : ? = -
This creates a significant mess if one wants to allow using the
secondary locations with Alt modifier (for example, to generate Meta-;
by Alt-AltGr-;). It does not look like a small workaround is possible
(which does not break OTHER usage scenarios).
Ilya
P.S. I know a medium-sized workaround which would improve OTHER cases
as well. But it cannot be ready in a day or two!]
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Josko, 2016/04/09
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/09
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard,
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- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/14
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Ilya Zakharevich, 2016/04/16
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Ilya Zakharevich, 2016/04/16
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/17
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- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/21
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Josko, 2016/04/23
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/23
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, John Wiegley, 2016/04/23
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/21
- bug#23251: 25.0.92; M-< and M-> don't work with Croatian keyboard, Ilya Zakharevich, 2016/04/16