Re: Keymapping for German has @ character at pre-OS 9 position
Re: Keymapping for German has @ character at pre-OS 9 position
- Subject: Re: Keymapping for German has @ character at pre-OS 9 position
- From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:39:06 +0100
El viernes, 10 ener, 2003, a las 16:57 Europe/Madrid, Sebastian
Hagedorn escribis:
this is specific to the German keymapping and it's not just a problem
with
Apple's X11, but with XDarwin etc. as well.
If I launch X11 like this:
/Applications/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --xquartz-be-xinit -keymap
/System/Library/Keyboards/Deutsch.keymapping
and use
xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = Mode_switch'
I can use the German keyboard layout just fine. But the @ character is
mapped to Shift-Alt-1 (one), just like it used to be up to Mac OS 8.6.
With
the introduction of Mac OS 9 Apple moved that character to Alt-L. The
file
Deutsch.keymapping does not seem to reflect that. I suppose that's
handled
by /System/Library/Keyboard Layouts/Roman.bundle instead ...
I think that some keymappings in /System/Library/Keyboards have not
been updated from a long, long time. This could explain the problem
with the German keymapping, and also the fact that there is *not* a
keymapping for the Spanish ISO keyboards, which are being used since
1995 (IIRC); the "Espanol.keymapping" file is completely useless
nowadays.
JMA
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