RE: Proposed release criteria additions for F14+

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I ran through the same thing back when I wrote my own operating system.  Getting the keyboard to work properly was, in my opinion, the hardest part.  Of course, I cheated and used Linux's memory management...  I think some Russian keyboards do give out different signals, but don't quote me on that.

> Subject: Re: Proposed release criteria additions for F14+
> From: awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:58:29 -0700
>
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:44 -0400, James Laska wrote:
>
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_login
> >
> > Perhaps demonstrating my familiarity with only keymap=us, but using a
> > different keymap requires a different keyboard right?
>
> Not in fact, no. Try selecting a UK keymap and hit shift-3. =) This is a
> quick and easy way to do this test if you only have a US keyboard -
> select the UK keyboard map and create usernames and passwords with UK
> currency symbols in 'em. Most other symbols are the same (though \, >,
> @, " and | move about a bit...)
>
> (In fact the whole user-selected-keymap paradigm exists because
> 'different keyboards' aren't really that different. They all send the
> same physical signals, whatever's written on the keycaps. This is why
> you have to manually pick the right keymap to make what gets printed on
> screen match what's written on your keycaps. If there was actually some
> identifiable electronic difference between differently-labelled
> keyboards, we wouldn't have to ask the user to select a keymap at all,
> we could just pick the appropriate one automatically.
>
> I recommend not digging too far down this rabbit hole, as you'll learn
> all about wonderful things like the fact that there's actually three
> layers here - keycodes, keysyms, and then what's eventually printed on
> the screen - and X gets in the way too. And dead keys and the way some
> international layouts need three, four or even five layers of
> characters...I did some work on keymapping for an unofficial port of
> Android to the HTC Touch Pro 2, which is even more entertaining because
> Android doesn't work like X at all and has its own odd conventions for
> converting keycodes to keysyms to characters. Whee!)
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