winex11.drv: Windows always generates VK_DECIMAL for Del/. on a keypad.

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Wed Apr 18 09:57:01 CDT 2012


Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:

> Windows always generates VK_DECIMAL for Del/. on a keypad while some
> X11 keyboard layouts generate XK_KP_Separator instead of XK_KP_Decimal
> in order to produce a locale dependent numeric separator.
> 
> X11 handles XK_KP_Separator same way as XK_KP_Decimal for all tested
> keyboard layouts, so passing XK_KP_Separator instead of XK_KP_Decimal
> to XKeysymToKeycode doesn't break things. Pressing Del/. with NumLock
> turned on still correctly generates '.' or ',' depending on keyboard
> layout and matches what Windows does.
> 
> This patch fixes an application which uses VK_DECIMAL as a sign to break
> the input string and insert a separator while entering a currency/price.

Is there anything else I could provide in helping to get this patch accepted?

-- 
Dmitry.



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