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

[Bartlomiej Krawczyk <bbartlomiej.mail%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/57844; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bartlomiej Krawczyk <bbartlomiej.mail%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/57844: wscons doesn't support encoding=pl contrary to
 wskbd(4) man page
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:41:26 +0100

 On 13.01.2024 11:10, Michael van Elst wrote:
 >   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.
 
 Thanks Michael,
 I planned to engage a bit more and that seems like a not too difficult 
 task. I guess I can base on existing maps. I will try to look into it in 
 following weeks.
 
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 Regards,
 Bartlomiej Krawczyk