Re: [MiNT] No dead keys with trunk

[Jean-Luc CECCOLI <Jean-Luc.Ceccoli@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:18:40 , "Jean-François wrote:
> On Monday 20 Dec 2010 20:24:12 Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 19:57 +0200, Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote:
> > > > According to the doc dead keys should be enabled for all supported
> > > > languages if the "keyboard.tbl" file is present in $SYSDIR. However,
> > > > this never worked for me (French). Is there something else involved to
> > > > have deadkeys working?
> > >
> > > Same for me. But I think it must be an Eiffel-related problem, just as
> > > for Alt/AltGr-Key.
> > > The problem is I never really could understand the way it actually work
> s.
> >
> > 1. There are no deadkeys unless specified in keyboard.tbl.
> > 2. The last table in keyboard.tbl defines the deadkeys. It's similar to
> > the alt-tables, but each entry consists of three bytes instead of two:
> > Deadkey character, e.g. ^
> > The corresponding base character, e.g. a
> > The resulting character, in this case it will be â
> > A single zero/null terminates the table.
> >
> > So when you press '^', nothing happens. If the following key is 'a', you
> > will get a 'â'.
>
> I'm sure Jean-Luc meant he does not understand the way it works *in MiNT*.

Yes. Remember I'm a late MiNT user. I moved to MiNT just because of
MagiC! not being able to handle the EtherNAT.
Under MagiC!, modifying the keyboard table (Keytabls.sys, into the Xtension
folder, or even directly into MagX.ram itself) would easily do the job.
I can't state for deadkeys for sure, but Alt+keys, yes. Whether using the
Eiffel or not. No problem at all.
When I ran MiNT, I had to suffer many keyboard issues, even with the correct
keyboard file. So, after some tries editing the file (with an hex editor or
using the tool), I finally gave up and decided to deal with Alt+keypad
sequences.
BTW, I tried to compare both MagiC! and MiNT tables once, and I could notice
they are quite different.
>
> What you're describing above is what us French speakers have experienced
> since we 1st started using computers.
>
> The FreeMiNT documentation makes it sound as if French-speaking users will
> have dead keys working if the install the french.tbl table.
>
Yes, that's what I thought too.

Regards,

J.-Luc