Re: kernel keymap and kbd_mode

[Innocenti Maresin <av95@xxxxxxxx>]

Chris Heath wrote:

> Notice that with my patch (p3_conv_8bit_to_uni.patch
> at http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html ),
> the "dumpkeys | loadkeys --unicode" is not needed at all.  :-)

If p3_conv_8bit_to_uni.patch uses _8bit_ keymaps in the kernel,
converting it to Unicode at key pressing time,
then it is not so good solution, sorry :-/
It seems to me that 8bit keymaps in the kernel is generally a bad practice,
because the keyboard charset trouble will remain despite p3_conv_8bit_to_uni.patch
if I would change one 8bit charset to another _8bit_,
e.g. KOI8-R to Windows-1251 .

IMHO: kernel keyboard conversion Unicode->8bit will be a good way to 8bit when needed,
but kernel keyboard conversion 8bit->something is a bad way to something
because 8bit keymaps are not labelled with codepage when loaded to keyboard.c, 
so keymap's codepage is undefined. 



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