[Key not natively supported]: "ñ"

[luisg123v]

I noticed that, apparently, the "ñ" key, available in Spanish keyboards (as in "español") is not natively supported by AntiMicro

When I press that key within KeyChecker, I get the following:

Event Handler:        XTest
Native Key Value:     0xf1
Qt Key Value:         0xd1
antimicro Key Value:  0x0

Here is a screenshot of my KeyChecker

I'd like to add that the key is recognized and works just fine.

[jsbackus]

Oh no! Yes, looking at the code it looks like there are several missing keys for non-US keyboards. You're clearly running on a Linux machine. Would you try a couple of things for me, please?

1. Build and try the version here
2. Build either the official 2.22 or the above with uinput and try the key checker on it (you'll need to start it with --eventgen uinput).

Thanks!

[luisg123v]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply!

Request 1:
I've compiled and run the version you provided and got the following results:

Event Handler:        XTest
Native Key Value:     0xf1
Qt Key Value:         0xd1
antimicro Key Value:  0xf1

As you can see, the antimicro Key Value is the same as the Native Key Value. I don't know if that was the desired output, since the antimicro Key Value usually is the same as the Qt Key Value.

Request 2:
I compiled the version you provided using the DWITH_UINPUT=ON flag, as suggested in BuildOptions.md. I got the following output:

Event Handler:        uinput
Native Key Value:     0x0
Qt Key Value:         0xd1
antimicro Key Value:  0x0

Same pattern here. To make uinput to work, I had to either run antimicro as root or change the owner of /dev/uinput from root to myself. Is that normal?

On the oter hand, the --eventgen option seems not to be documented anywhere. Is it an internal option used only for debuggin?

[jsbackus]

Thanks! Yes, I was afraid that uinput doesn't support the extended characterset. Not sure where things stand with it, so I wanted to try it. Thanks!

Yikes! Looks like the issue is that Qt doesn't have a mapping for the small-case Latin characters. Please try to build the version here.

[luisg123v]

Now, the antimicro Key Value is the same as the Qt one:

Event Handler:        XTest
Native Key Value:     0xf1
Qt Key Value:         0xd1
antimicro Key Value:  0xd1

and, if I use uinput, I get the following output:

Event Handler:        uinput
Native Key Value:     0x0
Qt Key Value:         0xd1
antimicro Key Value:  0x0

[jsbackus]

@luisg123v Thanks! Sounds like the updated program works for you in X mode. I've made a separate issue (#57) to track the potential problem with uinput, since I don't know that it is actually an issue for anyone.

Since it looks like the fix addresses your issue, I'm going to close it. Please feel free to re-open if you have additional concerns. Thanks for your help!