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International keyboard support (Developers)

posted by mbbrutman , Washington, USA, 23.01.2023, 23:51

Understood - I can't support everything, nor am I going to try. I think a good starting point is assuming that there is only one keyboard mode and one codepage in effect at a time, and then using a mapping table to convert from whatever value is provided by the BIOS to Unicode.

As an escape hatch, I'll also define a key sequence for entering Unicode codepoints directly by number.

I suspect this covers most people's needs. If anybody contacts me with something more complex, then I can dig into the specifics of their use case. But right now, I'd just be even happy with trying to map incoming UTF-8 to a codepage .. it's better than seeing the encoded gibberish.

Do you think my plan works for the 80% case? (Single keyboard layout, single display codepage?)

Complete thread:

• International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 21.01.2023, 21:44
  • International keyboard support - marcov, 22.01.2023, 14:19
  • International keyboard support - tom, 22.01.2023, 18:06
  • International keyboard support - Laaca, 22.01.2023, 21:55
    • International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 22.01.2023, 22:46
      • International keyboard support - Laaca, 23.01.2023, 00:20
      • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 23.01.2023, 18:12
        • International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 23.01.2023, 23:51
          • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 24.01.2023, 21:10
        • International keyboard support - tom, 12.02.2023, 18:39
          • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 13.02.2023, 15:35
            • International keyboard support - tom, 13.02.2023, 18:36
              • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 14.02.2023, 04:51
            • International keyboard support - tkchia, 13.02.2023, 20:13
              • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 14.02.2023, 05:05
      • International keyboard support - tom, 14.02.2023, 12:17
        • International keyboard support - tom, 15.02.2023, 13:19
          • International keyboard support - marcov, 15.02.2023, 18:14
            • International keyboard support - tom, 15.02.2023, 21:31
              • International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 18.02.2023, 03:17
                • International keyboard support - Aitor, 06.03.2023, 01:09