Re: UTF-8 keyboard mode

[Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl]

From kaih: Mac example.

Yes. For us this would be a bit more complicated, because people
really use the power of the keyboard handler.
Any key can be a modifier key, and people use for example F12
to switch between a dvorak and a qwerty layout by loading
a large keymap where F12 is a locking shift.
Similar things are done by Greeks, Russians etc to switch between
character sets.

I thought of having /dev/kbd with packets for the past 256 keystrokes
or so, where these packets are thrown away if no-one reads them.
You really want these bytes in the normal input stream?
Sounds like a new keyboard state, and again difficult to get out of
if this program that understands the stream crashes.

Andries
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