Japanese keyboards traditionally use 0x5c for
both Japanese yen sign key and backslash key.
While a Japanese yen sign is depicted on the keytop,
most of Japanese expect that the scan code 0x7d gives
a backslash (0x5c), not a Japanese yen sign (0xa5).
This is because JIS X 0201 encoding (aka ISO/IEC 646-JA,
an extended version of ASCII which is very popular
in Japan) has Japanese yen sign at 0x5c and
no backslash. On the other hand, ISO/IEC 8859-1
has Japanese yen sign at 0xa5. This difference has
caused a confusion after Unicode became popular since
ISO/IEC 10646 adopted 8859-1 for the plane 0.
MFC after: 1 week
but shall provide an Euro sign - similar for Japanese Yen).
The Brazilian keymap "br.kbd" now has accents, by default - the no-accents
version has been renamed to "br.noacc.kbd".
MFC after: 3 days
I have spent many hours comparing source and destination formats, and hope
to have caught the most severe conversion errors.
Files were converted with a Perl script which I'll shortly commit to the
tools directory. This script is a much enhanced version of the one
provided by ray@ and is expected to support the full kbdmap(5) syntax.
The naming convention used is:
<2-letter country code>.<variant>.kbd
Only if there are multiple layouts for different languages:
<2-letter country code>-<2-letter language code>.<variant>.kbd
In nearly all cases, the keyboards are country specific, only. Currently
there is only one case where the language was added ("ch-fr.kbd" for
the Swiss-French keyboard layout).
I choose to write Unicode character codes as hex numbers. While this
increases the diff to the SYSCONS keymap files for the trivial cases
(conversion from ISO8859-1), it really helps to verify the more complex
cases against a Unicode table (which is indexed by hex numbers).
This commit does not cover all files that have been converted, since I
need to sort out which ones to use, if there were several with different
source encodings to choose from.
Review and test of the keymap files is highly desirable before 10.1 is
released. I'd also appreciate educated opinions regarding the optimum
variant (to be made available as the default for each language).
Since there are no NEWCONS keymaps in 10-STABLE, I plan to MFC after
the minimum allowed delay of 3 days, to allow at least a few weeks to
test and improve what will be in the next release.
MFC after: 3 days
