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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:33:42 +0900
> From: Ken Nakata <ksn@tkf.att.ne.jp>
> Reply-To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
> To: perry@piermont.com
> Cc: current-users@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: "french"'ised NetBSD available
> 
> On 20 May 1999 10:02:14 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > 
> > Ken Nakata <knakata@itpjp.co.jp> writes:
> > > > > This reminds me of ...: any word on i18nized console driver?
> > > > 
> > > > I thought the console driver *was* internationalized.
> > > 
> > > You mean, you can connect a keyboard of any language and Just Use It?
> > 
> > No, because there is no way for the hardware to find out what kind of
> > keyboard it is a priori. HOWEVER, you can just use wsconsctl to set
> > the keyboard type any time you like, so once you are booted, yes, you
> > can tell the console driver to use any layout you wish -- French,
> > German, U.K., whatever.
> 
> Ah.... OK.  F*ck IBM for not defining different IDs for different
> language keyboards.

There is a two byte keyboard ID you can get from them (as per attached
patch (for 1.4)), i don't know wether it just identifies keyboards vs.
mice or weither it does actually report different keyboards...

On the 3 different uk keyboard i've tried it with i get 0xab, 0x41 - try the
patch and see if you get anything different!

-- 
    They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to
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them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always.
    - Frank Chalmers in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars".

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