Re: console input

[Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl]

	On this topic, please read also

	  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-14755.pdf

	which specifies several minimally required fallback input methods,
	including Ctrl-Shift plus hex digits. (Please do not publish a link to
	the above document, as it is only temporarily publicly available.)

Hmm. I just looked at this file, and as expected, Linux already
supports this.
For completeness I added "unicode.map" (I must find a better name)
to kbd-1.00. It contains

------------------------------------------------------------
# Most people will prefer the default Unicode hex input
# sequences (that use the keypad, with A-F represented
# by the keys around the digits in natural order).
# However, ISO-14755 suggests to use Ctrl-Shift and
# the ordinary letters and digits. That is also possible
# (but then Ctrl-Shift-2 will no longer be Ctrl-@).
control shift keycode 11 = Hex_0
control shift keycode 2 = Hex_1
control shift keycode 3 = Hex_2
control shift keycode 4 = Hex_3
control shift keycode 5 = Hex_4
control shift keycode 6 = Hex_5
control shift keycode 7 = Hex_6
control shift keycode 8 = Hex_7
control shift keycode 9 = Hex_8
control shift keycode 10 = Hex_9
control shift keycode 30 = Hex_A
control shift keycode 48 = Hex_B
control shift keycode 46 = Hex_C
control shift keycode 32 = Hex_D
control shift keycode 18 = Hex_E
control shift keycode 33 = Hex_F
#
# If the keyboard is in Unicode mode, then pressing
# Ctrl-Shift, typing 4 hex digits and releasing Ctrl-Shift
# will produce the unicode character with the given code.
#
------------------------------------------------------------

and "loadkeys unicode" will add these settings.

Andries
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