1 Changes for 1.14.1 (legion)
4 - Fix computing of the host-system type.
5 - Fix options handling (thanks for the help to Mike Frysinger).
6 - Fix DESTDIR handling.
8 - unicode_{start,stop}: To run loadkeys is allowed only to root.
10 - Add Norwegian dvorak keymap.
11 - Add turkish F (trf) keyboard map.
12 - Fix turkish Q (trq) keyboard map (Ozgur Murat Homurlu).
13 - Move qwerty/cz.map -> qwertz/cz.map.
14 - include/*euro.map: Change 'currency' to 'euro' symbol.
16 Changes for 1.14 (legion)
18 o Use autoconf for build system.
20 - Add --enable-nls option.
21 - Add --enable-optional-progs option.
23 - Add OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) keymaps
24 - Add more romanian keymaps (Vitezslav Crhonek)
25 - Add another ukrainian keymap
26 - Add Belarusian (Belarus) keymaps
29 - Add Bashkir (Russia) keymap
31 - Add more russian keymaps
33 - Add unicode fonts (UniCyrExt_8x16.psf, UniCyr_8x14.psf, UniCyr_8x16.psf,
35 - Add Lat2-Terminus16 font
36 - Fix sun12x22 font unicode mapping table (Vitezslav Crhonek)
38 - Add '.acm' suffix for compatibility with console-tools
43 - fix findfile so that it does not find directories
44 - kbdrate: fix for sparc
45 o New translations: cs.po, de.po
50 - updated getkeycodes, showkey for Linux 2.6
52 - Minor changes to is-latin1.map
53 - New is-latin1-us.map (Reynir H. Stefánsson)
54 o New translations: el.po, pl.po
59 - updated setkeycodes for Linux 2.6
60 o New translations: es.po, nl.po
65 - openvt: new -e option (damjan@legolas)
66 - Makefiles: DESTDIR handling improved
68 - New bg-cp1251.map (Dimitar Zhekov)
69 - New bg_bds-cp1251.map, bg_pho-cp1251.map (Peter Georgiev)
70 - New bg_bds-utf8.map, bg_pho-utf8.map (Peter Georgiev)
71 - Renamed bg.map to bg-cp855.map
72 Probably one of bg-cp1251.map and bg_pho-cp1251.map should be deleted.
73 Can some Bulgarian tell me which one?
75 - Added greek-polytonic.psfu (mpGr.psf, from Lefteris Dimitroulakis)
76 o New translations: cs.po, es.po, gr.po
81 - update for Linux 2.6.1, with PIO_UNIMAP for non-fg consoles
82 - update for Linux 2.5.42: NR_KEYS=256
84 - small fix for nl.map
85 o New translations: pl.po, ro.po
90 - loadkeys.y: fix for bison 1.50 (Per Lidén)
91 - loadkeys.y: fix in addfunc()
92 - Makefile etc: minor cleanup (Daniel R. Grayson)
93 - Makefile etc: --prefix support (Michael Covi)
95 - passim: don't map PrtSc to Ctrl-\ so that poor innocents do not
96 kill applications when they only want to print the screen;
97 only map Ctrl-PrtSc to Ctrl-\ (Kurt Garloff)
98 - modified fi-latin1.map, new fi-latin9.map (Marko Myllynen)
99 - bg-cp1251.map (Dimitar Zhekov)
100 - il-heb.map (Oded S. Resnik)
101 - sr-cy.map (Milos Rancic)
102 - fr-latin9.map (Guylhem Aznar), removed older fr-latin0.map.
107 - showfont renamed to showconsolefont to avoid clash with X
108 - loadkeys.y: fix in addfunc() (Shigeharu Hirayma)
109 - loadkeys.y: handle relative symlinks (Matthias Benkmann)
110 - sami.syms.h: symbol definitions for Northern Sámi (Regnor Jernsletten)
111 - findfile.c: search entire dir before looking at subdirs (Matthias Benkmann)
112 - getfd.c, etc.: also try devfs names (Alastair McKinstry)
113 - kbdrate.c: do not use <linux/kd.h>: the struct elements changed name
114 - setleds: typo fixed
116 - New: fgconsole.1 (Alastair McKinstry)
117 - Added a few man[18]misc pages, for non-installed stuff (Alastair McKinstry)
119 - Added cyr-sun16.psfu (Bero)
121 - Added cp1251_to_uni.trans, koi8-r_to_uni.trans, koi8-u_to_uni.trans (Bero)
123 - Renamed the Swedish se-latin1.map to sv-latin1.map
124 - Added se-fi-ir209.map, se-fi-lat6.map, se-ir209.map, se-lat6.map
125 for Northern Sámi (Regnor Jernsletten)
126 - Added pt-latin9.map (Carlos Monteiro)
127 - The old nl.map was really bad. Renamed nl3.map to nl.map.
128 - fi-latin1.map small changes
130 - kbd.FAQ: small additions
132 Changes for 1.06 (aeb)
135 - Some Makefile changes (Peter Breitenlohner)
136 - Added fgconsole to the installed programs
137 - resizecons.c: removed .psf extension from default fonts (bero)
138 - psffontop.c: correction to handling of unicode sequences (Kurt Garloff)
139 - loadkeys: work better in the presence of symlinks
141 - Removed scancode docs (these will be distributed separately, had grown to
142 over 1 MB; see also http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html)
144 - Added iso02-12x22.psfu (Jacek Lipkowski)
145 - Renamed sun-12x22.psfu to iso01-12x22.psfu since Kurt Garloff
146 explained that it was not the kernel font but a modified version.
147 Added the original sun-12x22.psfu.
148 - Renamed lat7-16.psfu to iso07u-16.psfu. (lat7 is iso13, not iso07)
149 - Added lat7a-14.psfu (earlier: lt-brim*) and lat7a-16.psf (bad fonts)
150 - Added lat7-14.psfu (ugly, but with the right characters)
152 - Renamed lat7u.uni to iso07u.uni since it is not a Latin-7 map.
154 o Keymaps (mostly Kurt Garloff, SuSE):
155 - Corrected br-latin1-abnt2.map (Frédéric Meunier), mac-de_CH.map,
157 - Added missing Latin-1 symbols to fi-latin1.map (Marko Myllynen)
158 - Added sundvorak.map, sunt4-no-latin1.map, sunt5-cz-us.map,
159 sunt5-us-cz.map, mac-dvorak.map, mac-qwertz-layout.inc
161 Changes for 1.05 (aeb)
164 - kdmapop.c, kdmapop.h, utf8.c, utf8.h: new
165 - loadunimap.c: also allow a range mapped to a single Unicode symbol
166 - mapscrn.c: also allow a character given as utf8 string
167 - mapscrn.c: handle PIO_SCRNMAP and PIO_UNISCRNMAP with same -m/-om options
168 - showfont.c: also show fonts larger than 256 glyphs
169 - unicode_start: updated; added text from Bruno Haible
171 - font-formats, unicode_start.1, unicode_stop.1: new
172 - loadunimap.8, mapscrn.8, setfont.8: updated
174 - Added drdos8xN.psfu
176 - Added cybercafe.uni
177 o Console translations:
178 - Added 8859-N_to_uni.trans, cpNNNN_to_uni.trans
180 - Corrected corrupted 737.cp, lat5-N.psfu, baltic.trans
182 Changes for 1.04 (aeb, Olaf Hering, Kurt Garloff):
185 - setfont etc: support for font widths other than 8
186 - loadkeys.y: also look at mac/include
189 - contrib/showfont: new
190 - contrib/psfsplit: new
191 - cad: don't create a temp file
193 - Minor changes to kbd FAQ. Extended scancode FAQ. New A20 docs.
194 - Minor changes to man pages.
196 - New keymap include dir mac/include.
197 - Added euro1.map and euro2.map.
198 - Added some compose definitions to compose.latin and compose.latin1.
199 - Deleted be-latin1.map and renamed be2-latin1.map to be-latin1.map.
200 There seems to be consensus that it is better than the original
202 - Renamed hebrew.map to il-phonetic.map and added il.map.
203 - Applied fix from Jochen Hein to de.map.
204 - Applied SuSE fixes to mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map, us.map, de*.map.
205 - Added mac-be.map, mac-de-latin1.map, mac-de_CH.map, mac-dk-latin1.map,
206 mac-es.map, mac-fi-latin1.map, mac-fr.map, mac-fr_CH-latin1.map,
207 mac-it.map, mac-pt-latin1.map, mac-se.map, mac-uk.map, mac-us.map,
208 br-latin1-abnt2.map, br-latin1-us.map, cz.map, de_CH-latin1.map,
209 mk.map (renamed the old one to mk0.map), mk-cp1251.map, mk-utf.map,
210 ro_win.map and cz-cp1250.map.
213 o Console translations:
214 - Added iso02_to_cp1250.trans.
216 - Added cybercafe.fnt, sun12x22.psfu, cp1250.psfu,
217 cp857.08, cp857.14, cp857.16.
219 Changes for 1.03 (aeb):
221 o Added doc/scancodes/* with information on the scancodes produced
224 o Added Unicode maps to Greek fonts.
226 Changes for 1.00 (aeb):
228 o Introduced psf2 fonts, allowing one to describe a font position
229 with a Unicode sequence (base character with combining accents).
230 o Reorganized fonts; added Unicode table to most of them.
231 The consolefonts directory got a subdirectory partialfonts.
232 The Unicode maps got a directory of their own.
233 o Moved kbdrate from util-linux to here.
234 o Added -s (sort) option to getunimap.c.
235 o Setfont now accepts several psf2 fonts, each of arbitrary length.
236 Setfont now accepts certain codepage fonts.
237 Setfont now accepts a text file containing a list of fonts to load.
238 o Made distinction between koi8-r and koi8-u.
239 o spawn_console and spawn_login invoke openvt, not open.
241 Changes for 0.98 (aeb):
243 o Added internationalization and Dutch texts (nl.po)
245 Changes for 0.96 (aeb):
247 o Added keywords like strings_as_usual. Added keymap include files.
248 o Reorganized keymap directory.
249 o Added loading of compressed fonts.
250 o Added iso-8859-9 handling.
251 o Added -a option to showkey.
253 Changes for 0.94 (aeb):
255 o Added keyword alt_is_meta.
257 Changes for 0.91 (aeb):
259 o Added hpa's setfont patch.
261 Changes for 0.90 (aeb):
263 o Changed setfont to subsume mapscrn and escape sequence.
264 o Added hpa's psftable stuff.
265 o Added Unicode stuff (requires kernel 1.1.92 or later).
267 Changes for 0.89 (aeb):
271 Changes for 0.88 (aeb):
273 o Added dynamic keymap support. Added "keymaps" directive.
274 o Added dynamic console allocation. Added disalloc.
276 o Changed LED handling.
277 o Added the contributed codepage.c (to extract codepages from a
279 o Many minor changes.
281 Changes for 0.87 (aeb):
283 o Added iso-8859-8 support. Added "charset" directive.
284 o Corrected a typo in "trivial".
286 o Extended kbd.FAQ. Added contributed keymaps and fonts.
288 Changes for 0.85-0.86 (aeb):
290 o Minor things only. Added contributed keymaps and fonts.
292 Changes for 0.84 (aeb):
294 o Added more compose key support to loadkeys.
295 o Setfont, loadkeys and mapscrn look by default in /usr/lib/kbd/*.
296 o Setfont can read codepage font files (and select a font from them).
297 o Many minor changes.
299 Changes for 0.83 (aeb):
301 o Added KT_LETTER, so that CapsLock can work correctly.
302 For the time being, this is denoted by a leading + in the keymap.
303 o Added setfont, showfont, mapscrn.
304 o Added setleds, setmetamode.
305 o Put data by default in three subdirectories of /usr/lib/kbd.
307 Changes from version 0.81 to version 0.82 (aeb@cwi.nl):
309 o Made mktable an option of loadkeys, so that the file defkeymap.c
310 produced is independent of the current kernel, and independent of
311 the current keyboard settings. (The old mktable program is now
313 o After dumpkeys > x; loadkeys x; dumpkeys > y the files x and y
314 should be identical. They were not. I hope they are now.
315 o Showkey now restores the original keyboard mode.
316 o Loadkeys now accepts quotes and backslashes in strings.
317 o Added compose key support.
319 Changes from version 0.8 to version 0.81:
321 o Updated and fixed the keytable files
322 o Minor additions to the loadkeys man page
323 o Added support for ISO 8859-{2,3,4} character symbols, updated
324 dumpkeys man page accordingly
326 Changes from the prerelease to version 0.8:
328 o Enhanced the shorthand notation `keycode xx = a', where `a' is an
329 ASCII letter and changed `dumpkeys' and `loadkeys' accordingly.
330 Now this entry defines useful values in shift+control, meta+shift,
331 meta+control and meta+control+shift keytables, too. AltGr entries
332 also default now to the value of non-AltGr entries.
333 o Added the possibility to split long lines into multiple shorter ones
334 by appending a backslash at the end of each partial line.
335 o Added a version number and a short usage message to `dumpkeys'
336 o Added the options --short-info, --long-info (replaces the symbol
337 dump, -s), --numeric, --full-table, --funcs-only, --keys-only to
338 `dumpkeys'. See manpage for more info.
339 o Added a version number, a short usage message and the ability to load
340 multiple map files at a time to `loadkeys'.
341 o Added the utility `mktable' to generate the kernel default binding
342 table automatically from the currently loaded keytable.
343 o Added the utility `showkey' for interactively inspecting the
344 scancodes and keycode values sent by key presses and releases.
345 o Fixed the value of Uncaps_Shift, eliminated obsolete Map_xx symbols
346 o Added Meta_Control_xxx symbols.
347 o Added symbols for locking modifiers (kernel 0.99pl12 doesn't support this)