RFR: 8150709: Mac OSX and German Keyboard Layout (Y/Z)

[Tom Schindl]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:40:55 GMT, Martin Fox <github.com+12087024+beldenfox at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/8760688d213865eaf1bd675056eb809cdae67048/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/AWTEvent.m#L462
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> On the French keyboard the digits are shifted but I assumed we would still want those keys to map to KeyCode.0-9 as they do on Windows. My solution was to hard-code those key positions to be digits but this interferes with Dvorak layouts. I'm tweaking the implementation to fix this. The new approach will be to query both the shifted and unshifted characters on a key and favor digits and letters over everything else (and something over nothing).
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> (I've been writing Mac code to enumerate all the OS keyboard layouts and generate lists showing which Java key codes will change from the historic implementation. It also does some sanity checking.)

Maybe this is a very dumb idea but why are we not using the char to map back to the keycode? At least for everything in the ASCII-Range this would be ok not? We'd only have to check for special keys (like NUM-Keys, F-Keys, ...) first. So once we checked and the text is of length 1 we could do the mapping from the char.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/425