Re: kern/57844: wscons doesn't support encoding=pl contrary to wskbd(4) man page

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

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From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/57844: wscons doesn't support encoding=pl contrary to wskbd(4) man page
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:06:35 -0000 (UTC)

 bbartlomiej.mail%gmail.com@localhost writes:
 
 >While trying to set encoding to wscons I get: 
 >netbsd# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl
 >wsconsctl: WSKBDIO_SETENCODING: Invalid argument
 
 While wscons knows that a polish encoding may exist, the keyboard
 drivers for USB or PS/2 don't have a suitable descriptor table
 for a polish layout.
 
 The only keyboard driver that knows KB_PL seems to be for
 the Amiga keyboard.
 
 wskbd however supports a user keyboard map. I don't know the
 details of the polish layout, but it should be possible to
 construct it "manually" that way.