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Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong keyboard mapping for Belgian keyboard


From: Aurelien Jarno
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong keyboard mapping for Belgian keyboard
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:20:26 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

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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