Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 16:50:54 +0000, Nia Alarie wrote:

> Defining this layout is slightly optimistic, since even with latin-2
> fonts loaded and the appropriate locale set, wscons seems to struggle
> to input most of these characters.
> 
> Regardless, this allows the supposedly supported "pl" encoding
> to not fail loading with an error message, and allows X11 to
> auto-detect the keyboard layout (defining KB_PL and as an alias of
> KB_US also accomplishes this goal), with room for proper UTF-8
> support in the future.
> 
> PR port-amd64/57234 "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work.
> PR kern/57844 wscons doesn't support encoding=pl contrary to wskbd(4) man page
> PR install/58405 Selecting Polish keyboard type in sysinst is useless

I haven't looked at the wskbd code for ages (20+ years), but my last
memories of it are ... traumatic.  I never got around to commit KOI8-R
support b/c, IICR, wskbd underlying keysym model was just wrong.  As a
hack, I used privately an - air-quotes - "koi8-r" map that used latin1
keysym names instead.  And then I was mostly using serial console, so
the problem kinda became irrelevant.

If things haven't changed since that time, SomeOne(TM) should finally
get over that code with a big rototiller, and extrme prejudice. :)

-uwe