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Re: [PATCH] ISO abd JIS for ADB (Was: two keys with same keycode on ADB)



On Thu 12 May 2022 at 22:54:44 -0400, Michael wrote:
> Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > I am also a bit puzzled that in our historical code, ANSI ADB
> > scancode 42, which is supposed to be backslash (the key is between
> > backspace and return), is converted into USB scancode 50, which
> > is non US hash. I did not change it, but here again, input from
> > someone that has access to that keyboard would help.
> 
> It's there because hidkbdmap.c has
>     KC(50), 			KS_backslash,	KS_bar,

Could that have something to do with UK layout? The key near ENTER
(but not as described between enter and backspace) is #/~.
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

-Olaf.
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