[iyonix-support] Re: Correcting Firefox assumptions

Peter Naulls wrote:






 > Firefox doesn't recognize the French keyboard (RISC OS does it well)

This isn't a bug report since I don't know what "doesn't recognize"
means.  Firefox uses entirely legal methods of accessing the keyboard,
so I don't care to speculate on what's wrong here, except to say the
input code has many layers of code.
Having quickly reviewed the code in ChoX11 - which I didn't write, but in fact Alan Buckley did (and without whose work, Firefox would be 
a hopelessly less component port), I can see that it makes some
unfortunate (but probably neccessary) inkey code translations, which are required to present some semblance of the full range of key transitions and codes expected by the X layer code - indeed it still doesn't do a complete job, and complete information isn't available, ironically, without subverting the Wimp's keyboard input. All you can conclude 
is that the RISC OS keyboard input/internationalisation is a rather
primitive way of doing things in this century.

Fixing this may or may not be trivial.   And more likely, if things
were to be improved in Firefox, there are many more obvious issues,
and the occasional European user with a non-British keyboard layout
(and I have US keyboards of course on most of my machines) has to
be way down the list.
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