Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paravirt framebuffer backend tools [2/5]

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@xxxxxxxx>]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Steven Smith wrote:
>>> If the SDL viewer is using X11 configured with french keyboard, and the 
>>> virtual
>>> machine is configured with US keyboard, the used keymap will be the US one. 
>>> So
>>> when I press 'A' on my keyboard I will have 'Q'.
>> That kind of sucks.
> 
> There is no way around that.
> 
>> Not being able to produce every character sucks
>> more, but having to configure the keymap in every VM isn't much
>> better.
> 
> For sane i18n kbd support some translation must be done.
> 
> Make the guest think he has an US keyboard and do the translation on the
> host isn't going to work.  An US keyboard hasn't an 'Ä' key for example,
> so you wouldn't be able to type that character.  Also some characters
> are arranged in a different way, for example on a us keyboard you have
> ';' and ':' sharing one key, whereas on a german one ';' lives together
> with ','.  That isn't going to work with host-side translation too.
> 
> Thus we *must* do the translation in the guest.  And we must do it in
> the guest *only*, otherwise we'll end up with the translation happening
> twice which becomes even more messy.
> 
> Sending scancodes not keysyms is the only solution to that problem.  Really.

Thank you ;-)

> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 

Laurent

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