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From: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Japanese keyboards
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:21:53 +0900
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Andries Brouwer:
> Norman Diamond:
> > Vojtech Pavlik:
> >
> > > If anyone would send me samples of Japanese keyboards, you can be sure
> > > I'd test them.
> >
> > Thank you!  I was afraid to ask in advance because I thought that you would
> > either refuse or you would ignore the suggestion.  Dr. Brouwer did refuse,
> > about 3 years ago or so.
>
> Did I really?

You did on 2001.2.23:

> > would have a use for a Japanese USB keyboard
>
> It would be too expensive to mail.
> Instead of keyboards I prefer to collect scancodes of keyboards,
> and you provided some good information.
> (I also got photographs from someone, maybe you saw:
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-3.html )

Returning to this year:

> I think no kernel changes are required to use Japanese keyboards today.
> (But kbd has to be recompiled with NR_KEYS set to 256.)

I'm not convinced yet.  defkeymap.c_shipped is included in the downloadable
.bz2 file and it is inadequate.