Re: UTF-8 keyboard mode

[Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl]

> it seems there was some sort of undocumented "half cooked" mode
> in the Linux keyboard driver

Hmm. I think I wrote quite a lot of docs in the good old days.

But yes, the keyboard driver has raw mode, where you get the
keyboard scancodes (many X servers use this, and then have problems
with unusual keyboards), then there is mediumraw mode, where you
get the keycodes (some X servers use that), and then there are Latin
and UTF8 modes, where the keycodes are found in the keymap and the
bytes bound to it are returned.

For a trivial example of the use of mediumraw, see showkey.c
in the kbd package.

Andries
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