Re: [STUMP] non-english keyboard layout

[Shawn Betts]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Carlos Konstanski
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I recently switched my locale and keyboard layout to German
> iso-8859-15.  When I do a C-t ! to run a shell command, I cannot enter
> certain characters.  For example: ~ is moved to where the ] key is.
> You have to hit M-] twice to get the character because it's one of
> those that, if hit only once, will modify the keystroke that comes
> after it.  The sequence M-] a gives you ã.
>
> Anyway, is there a quick and easy answer to why the little stump
> minibuffer doesn't obey the same keystrokes as everything else?  Or do
> I need to dig?

All the minibuffer stuff is in input.lisp. Specifically,
input-self-insert is probably what you're interested in. It uses
xlib:keysym->character which probably needs to be replaced with our
own function. I guess what should happen is the keysyms in
keysyms.lisp should be augmented with the characters they can be
converted to. Then converting a keysym to a character becomes trivial.
Quite possibly problems may arise when loading the augmented
keysyms.lisp in different lisps if they don't all support the same
characters. Perhaps if that's a problem they should be unicode numbers
that are converted to characters using the lisp implementation's
conversion functionality.

That's just my 5 minute assessment. I'm open to other ideas, of course.

-Shawn