Key sets that you use

[Candy]

As for the practical section of testing a big keyboard function I'm intending to write, I'd like to know what keymaps everybody uses, and how the keys are arranged. I know the International QWERTY and Dvorak layouts, I've seen the QWERTZ once, but am not sure whether the Z is the only difference, typed on AZERTY once but not sure whether the q/a, w/z and m/; switches are the only ones, or that they are standard, and I've only found references to swedish, german and spanish dvoraks (http://users.one.se/liket/svorak/ , http://www.goebel-consult.de/de-ergo/pics.html and http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/SpanishDvorak.gif)

Now what I'm interested in, are these correct? Do you or anybody you know use them?

Does anybody use dvorak or ANSI dvorak?

Do you use something else and can you place a keymap of it here ?

TIA, Candy.

PS: If you'd be so kind, could you include unicode char encodings for the awkward ones on your keyboard? Thanks.

[bubach]

i am using the swedish... and i also got some os source with keymaps to diffrent lang. i could upload them..

mine looks like this (the normal chars..):
qwertyuiop?
asdfghjkl??
zxcvbnm

/ Christoffer

[Candy]

mine looks like this (the normal chars..):
qwertyuiop?
asdfghjkl??
zxcvbnm

Ok, but what's happened to your other keys? On my (int.) keyboard you'd be missing the [/{ key,the ;/: key and the '/" key. They seem to be quite valuable in programming

Thanks for the map

i am using the swedish... and i also got some os source with keymaps to diffrent lang. i could upload them..

If you'd please, yes. I assume this is qwerty

[Tim]

Here's a cool site where you can view all the keyboard types supported by Windows:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/refe ... oards.aspx

[bubach]

Thats nice Tim! It seems correct for Swedish..

/ Christoffer

[Candy]

Thats nice Tim! It seems correct for Swedish..

Indeed, thanks a lot! I've printed out dutch (the yucky nonstandard one), swedish and russian already, and am going to do french & german tonight. That should do for the next release (0.0.3, set for 25-june, with module support & if I make it a keyboard driver with these maps).

[Pype.Clicker]

The belgian keymap looks like

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?&?"'(??!??)-
azertyuiop^$
qsdfghjklm??
<wxcvbn,;:=

shifts gives you

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1234567890?_
>WXCVBN?./+

the '~' is ALTG=, [ and ] are ALTG^ and ALTG$ respectively,
pipe, @, # are ALTG1, ALTG2 and ALTG3 respectively, round braces ALTG9 and ALTG0, backslash is ALTG<

You can get almost all the keyboard maps from /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/<mapcode> of any Unix distro.

producing C datas out of this stuff shouldn't be too hard with Perl ...

[DennisCGc]

The belgian keymap looks like

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?&?"'(??!??)-
azertyuiop^$
qsdfghjklm??
<wxcvbn,;:=

Looks like the French keymap
Or am I wrong ?

[Pype.Clicker]

Looks like the French keymap
Or am I wrong ?

It's quite close from the french keymap, indeed, but there are differences (subtle, but still differences would say my sister ;P), for instance the 'backslash' and the underscore that are not mapped at the same place.