Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Guest keymap issue

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Hi,

Am 08.10.2013 11:07, schrieb Matej Mailing:
> the strange thing is that all other keys and combinations work except
> those ccaron, Ccaron, scaron and Scaron, zcaron and ZCaron don't.

As mentioned on IRC, my colleague had sent a patch to add ccaron, scaron
and zcaron support for VNC:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/270143/

Looks as if that hasn't been picked up yet, other patches in that series
have unresolved review comments. Jan?

Regards,
Andreas

P.S. Please don't top-post, that makes it harder to understand for added
people.

> In
> our language there are many words containing those chars and I really
> need to have them working.
> 
> When looking at the sl keymap file, those codes, even for all other
> chars that I type with showkey --ascii, are different than the showkey
> outputs, but they work (except those mentioned above).
> 
> Now I am totally confused on how could those that work, work ...
> 
> Thanks for any enlightenments in advance :)
> Matej
> 
> 2013/9/26 Matej Mailing <mailing@xxxxxx>:
>> I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
>> light to many things.
>>
>> Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
>> Thanks,
>> Matej
>>
>> 2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>>
>>> Matej Mailing <mailing@xxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>>>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>>>
>>>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>>>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>>>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>>>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>>>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>>>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>>>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>>>> am connected via VNC...
>>>>
>>>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>>>
>>> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>>>
>>> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/
> 


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