[kbd] U+f000 and above

[Pooya Taherkhani]

Alexay,

Thanks for your response.  I used to have Farsi keyboard on Linux Ubuntu,
but now I am not sure if there is any Frasi keyboard other than the "fa"
keymap that works on Arch Linux.

Could you point me to where to start if I want to fix the "fa" keymap?

Best,
-Pooya


On Saturday, March 20, 2021, Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 06:54:12PM -0500, Pooya Taherkhani wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I cannot load Farsi keymap because a decision was made here:
> >
> > https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/kbd
> >
> > to prevent it from loading.  Interestingly, a secondary reason cited by
> > Michael Schutte to prevent the Farsi keyboard from loading is (from link
> > above):
> >
> > As far as I can tell, there are no widespread keymap files which use
> > this feature.
> >
> >
> > I'd greatly appreciate it if anybody could direct me to some instructions
> > on how to load Farsi keyboard.
> >
> > Here is the command that I enter and the error I get:
> >
> > [pooya at thinkpad ~] sudo loadkeys fa
> > [sudo] password for pooya:
> > unicode keysym out of range: U+FDFC
> > syntax error, unexpected ERROR, expecting NUMBER or LITERAL or PLUS or
> > UNUMBER
>
> The keymap you are trying to load is not valid. The linux kernel cannot
> handle keysym greater than 0xf000. You need to fix this and then the
> keymap will load.
>
> --
> Rgrds, legion
>
>
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