[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1831362] [NEW] European keyboard PC-105 deadkey

[Roland Christmann]

Public bug reported:

With a freshly compiled version of qemu 4.0.50 on Windows 10 (host)

I am using 3 different Belgian keyboards and I have the same behaviour
- 2 USB keyboards (Logitech and HP) and
- the keyboard of my laptop (HP)

3 characters on the same key cannot be used (the key seams to be dead):
< (less than),
> (greater than) used with the combination of LShift or RShift
\ (backslash) used with the combination of AltGr

Using grub command mode from an archlinux installation (5.1.4)
The keyboard seams to be a mix of azerty and qwerty keyboard
all letters are correctly mapped but all numbers and special
characters are not

Using sendkey in monitor
"sendkey <" results in : \
"sendkey shift-<" results in : |
"sendkey ctrl-alt-<" results in : nothing

REM: VirtualBox can handle this key and with the showkey command
     from the archlinux kbd package, it shows :
     keycode 86 press
     keycode 86 release

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: keyboard windows

** Tags added: windows

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Title:
  European keyboard PC-105 deadkey

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  With a freshly compiled version of qemu 4.0.50 on Windows 10 (host)

  I am using 3 different Belgian keyboards and I have the same behaviour
  - 2 USB keyboards (Logitech and HP) and
  - the keyboard of my laptop (HP)

  3 characters on the same key cannot be used (the key seams to be dead):
  < (less than),
  > (greater than) used with the combination of LShift or RShift
  \ (backslash) used with the combination of AltGr

  Using grub command mode from an archlinux installation (5.1.4)
  The keyboard seams to be a mix of azerty and qwerty keyboard
  all letters are correctly mapped but all numbers and special
  characters are not

  Using sendkey in monitor
  "sendkey <" results in : \
  "sendkey shift-<" results in : |
  "sendkey ctrl-alt-<" results in : nothing

  REM: VirtualBox can handle this key and with the showkey command
       from the archlinux kbd package, it shows :
       keycode 86 press
       keycode 86 release

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