Re: be / international keyboard with xserv 4.3.0-57

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Stefaan Simoens wrote:

> > I ask becasue there are different languagecodes (those the specify language and
> > country):
> > 
> > 0x0413 Dutch (Netherlands)
> > 0x0813 Dutch (Belgium)
> > 0x040c French (Standard)
> > 0x080c French (Belgian)
> 
> I don't think you should take the language as a determinant for
> keyboard-layout. Dutch (Netherlands) and Dutch (Belgium) is used for a
> slight difference in date-notation (and, before the euro, a difference
> in currency).
> The same goes for French (Standard) and French (Belgian) I think.

These language identifiers + some minor bit make up the keyboard layout id 
I get from windows. So the language code is the only way I can handle 
the layouts.

> A "Belgian" keyboard has AZERTY keys. But, a friend of mine has his
> Windows2000 set up with language "Dutch (Belgium)" but he has a "US
> keyboard".
> 
> I think XWin is already checking the right Windows setting: 
> 
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000813" (00000813)
> (EE) Keyboardlayout "Belgisch (punt)" (00000813) is unknown
> 
> So, I think you should use 0x0813 for a Belgian keyboard-layout. (There
> are two Belgian keyboard layouts: "Belgisch (punt)" and "Belgisch
> (komma)" because some keyboards have a comma on the numeric keypad -- I
> do think the "Belgisch (komma)" isn't used that much).

Ok. Thank you

bye
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