GNU bug report logs - #43830
keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the OS

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Message #14 received at 43830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43830: keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the
 OS
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:00:25 +0300

> From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 19:48:05 +0200
> Cc: 43830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Do you know how to retrieve the key code corresponding to the English
> > keyboard layout when the active layout is something else, like
> > Russian?
> 
> No, but there must be a way, because both GTK+ and KDE know how to do
> this. GTK+ also can do this when run under KDE, so I'm pretty sure the
> information itself comes from X (xkb), not e.g. from GNOME configuration.

Then I guess we will have to wait for someone who could explain how
this can be done in Emacs.

Thanks.

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