Re: [PATCH] cannot input bar with JP106 keyboards

From: Jamie Lokier (jamie_at_shareable.org)
Date: 12/21/03

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To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>

    John Bradford wrote:
    > As I understand it there was traditionally a distinction between pipe,
    > (a broken vertical line), and bar, (solid vertical line).
    >
    > The markings on my keyboard are as follows:
    >
    > Pipe is the fourth character on the lower-right backslash key.
    > Bar is the second character on the upper-right yen key.
    >
    > However, my keyboard emulates a US one in Set 2, and produces the
    > Linux 'pipe' symbol, for example as in
    >
    > cat foo | less
    >
    > when the bar key is pressed.

    I have a UK keyboard; it's a Microsoft Natural keyboard.

    It has both "broken vertical line" and "solid vertical line" markings.
    The former is in the usual place above backslash. The latter is in
    the alternate (altgr, as opposed to shift) position on the key which
    has backquote (grave) and logical-not symbols.

    Curiously, both "broken vertical line" and "solid vertical line"
    generate a solid vertical line character in X (U+007C, standard pipe
    character), though shift+altgr+"broken vertical line" generates a
    broken vertical line character (U+08A6).

    On the Linux console, all combinations generate a broken vertical
    line, although that's the terminal font displaying a broken line for
    the same character that X shows as a solid one.

    What a strange mismash. It would be nice if the keyboard simply
    produced what is shown on the keys!

    It's nice that the logical-not key actually generates a logical-not
    character these days. I'm not sure why so many keyboard have it, and
    in such a prominent position, considering I've never _ever_ seen it
    used in a document, and the other logical symbols aren't present.

    Many older mappings emitted tilde at this position instead of
    logical-not, which I often used and was quite startled the day it
    started emitting what was on the key.

    -- Jamie
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