French keyboard layout with Euro symbol

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

>"Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>>At least, the detection mismatches should be fixed/explained IMHO.
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>I think that this topic was explained many times already.
>Anyway, here is yet another attempt.
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>1. Keyboard detection code was introduced in order to make
>some picky DOS games (expecting key presses to have fixed
>scan codes) work with different X keyboard layouts. Since
>win32 apps do not depend on it that's not a problem at all
>for them.
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>2. Another problem was that each keyboard layout in x11drv had
>its own code page for X event to unicode translations. That's
>now solved as well by introducing CP_UNIXCP support. Once
>the underlying system has a correctly configured locale,
>keyboard input in Wine (as well as a general locale support)
>should work just fine.
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>3. Another (existing) problem is that each keyboard layout still
>has a virtual keyboard map attached to it. It's unavoidable and
>needed for correct support for QWERTY/AZERTY/etc. keyboard layouts,
>when some applications really depend on it.
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>4. And the last problem I'm aware of is that we need to revamp
>the keyboard detection code to fill the real keyboard map first,
>and only then create keyc2vkey array depending on the real mapping,
>not a hardcoded one. That's a minor problem, which I discovered
>recently while debugging one of my supported apps.
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5. In the future, windows keyboard language APIs will need to be 
handled. For those to work, we must be aware of which is the current 
keyboard.

          Shachar

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