[Bug 10266] Numpad keyboard handling is strange, Del keyproducestwo events

[Peter Åstrand]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

> > It's a good idea to try to have
> > ToUnicodeEx work mainly as it does on Windows, but we are miles away from
> > reaching this goal.
> 
> What goal are you talking about? 

The goal of a implementation of ToUnicodeEx that is 100% compatible with 
Windows. 


> Since I'm very closely track all locale and keyboard input related 
> problems current code works very well, including international keyboard 
> input. The only feature that is missing is support

I disagree. Two examples: 

1) Shift-Numlock-Del generating Backspace AND a comma, using the sv 
layout. 

2) The race condition (bug 4923). We had to modify our Xserver to send 
keyboard events *slowly* to Wine, to avoid this. 

With these bugs still existing, I don't thinks reasonable to say that the 
implementation "works very well". There are several other bugs in the 
Bugzilla as well, as well as 22 FIXMEs in the source.


> > Another interesting fact is that none expected or preferred the current
> > Wine behaviour.
> 
> It this case it doesn't really matter what users expect or prefer, behaviour
> of ToUnicodeEx is predefined by what Windows does.

You are missing the point. We can have a 100% Windows compatible 
ToUnicodeEx but still select the model we want. It's just about what input 
we should feed to ToUnicodeEx. EVENT_event_to_vkey isn't a Windows API, so 
we can modify it how we want.


Rgds, 
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