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Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong keyboard mapping for Belgian keyboard
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Aurelien Jarno |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong keyboard mapping for Belgian keyboard |
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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:20:26 +0100 |
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:14:12PM +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> 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.
>
That should be fixed in the current SVN.
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