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23.2; Caps lock problem on English-Dvorak layout

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Message #14 received at 11414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gian Fontanilla <prvteprts <at> yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: bug#11414: 23.2; Caps lock problem on English-Dvorak layout
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:10:31 -0400

> emacs -Q
> C-x RET C-\ english-dvorak RET
> Now pressing the key labelled "," produces "w" as it should, and
> pressing "shift ," (ie, "<") correctly produces "W". This is because
> latin-post.el has the correct mapping:
>  ("W" ?<)
> But when caps-lock is active, pressing "," still generates "," (not "<")
> so Emacs still translates it to "w" (not "W").
> I don't know if quail has any way to solve this...

I think that at the Lisp level, the necessary information is not
available, so we'd have to change the C code to provide extra info for
Quail to try and use it.
It's not clear to me how best to do it, so I think it'll have to stay as
one of those "patches welcome" items.


        Stefan

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