Re: [PATCH] Allow non-ASCII keys in keymap

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:25:12PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> attached is a patch which adds support for non-ASCII keys to the keymap
> code.
> 
> A known problem is the misaligned helppage as expand_ctrl_chars isn't
> multibyte-safe yet. Another problem is that tin currently strips the
> charset from LANG (or the other values) and as the keymap code doesn't

this is in keymap.c:read_keymap_file() ~ line 330. we cut off
the codeset-portion as we didn't need it in the past and AFAIK its
notation is not standatized (e.g. on {sparc-sun,i386-pc}-solaris2.x and
rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.x it is de_DE.ISO8859-1; on ix86-pc-linux-gnu and
hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00 it is de_DE.iso88591) which might lead to confusion
if the keymapfile is shared via NFS in a multi-os environment
(using tin_nl_langinfo(CODESET) might be a solution here).

> do any charset conversions it is impossible to use a keymap (with
> non-ASCII keys) for a locale which is available in multiple charsets.
> A seperate keymap for en_US and en_US.UTF-8 doesn't work but a separate
> keymap for de_DE@euro and de_DE.UTF-8 works.

which is a 'flaw' in the 'strip codeset off the locale' code in
read_keymap_file() ;-)

urs
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