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[Qemu-devel] Wrong keyboard mapping for Belgian keyboard


From: Frederik Himpe
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Wrong keyboard mapping for Belgian keyboard
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:14:12 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

I am using qemu as part of kvm 77.

According to man kvm, the -k parameter can accept both nl-be and
fr-be. This makes no sense, as Dutch and French speaking Belgians use
the same azerty based "Belgian" keyboard. Only be should be defined, the
other ones could be just an alias for the be lay-out.

the nl-be option, seems to give some qwerty style lay-out, which is
totally wrong then.

The fr-be option, gives an azerty style lay-out, however, some
characters are wrong:

- Pressing the 1 on the alphanumerical keyboard without shift, should
  give & on a Belgian keyboard, however, it results in a k in my virtual
  machine.

- Pressing 4 without shift, should give ' but results in b

- Pressing 6 without shift, should give §, but results in s

Pressing the key to the left of the w key, should give < but results in
w (the real w key correctly results in w too)

- Key combinations with Alt-Gr (IIRC these are called dead keys?) do not
  work at all. For example AltGR+2 should give @, but it results in é
  (which is the character you should get without AltGR).

The host machine is running Mandriva Linux 2009.0 x86_64 (with a Belgian
keyboard of course), the KVM virtual machine runs Debian Lenny (also
configured for Belgian keyboard). If kvm-qemu is started without any -k
option, all keys work correctly.

On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Belgian_pc_keyboard.svg you can
see what a Belgian keyboard exactly looks like.
-- 
Frederik Himpe




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