AZERTY (French) Keyboard layout

[Cissoubaka]

Hi,

I'm using sometime an usb keybord to add media when not recognized, but my problem is that the keyboard layout is qwerty, and i'm using an azerty layout.

Where can I change this config?

[Dan Dar3]

@Cissoubaka
It appears there isn't a keymapping for French language, but maybe we can try to make one together.

Can you please take the contents below (click SELECT ALL below to make sure you got all of it), create as a file on your PC and then upload as Q:\languages\French\keyboardmap.xml.

Code: Select all

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
	Configuration file to map an English layout keyboard to a French layout keyboard.

	Keyboard layouts:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#AZERTY

	Forum thread:
	http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26796
-->
<keyboard_layout> 

	<char2char>
		<entry inchar=","		outchar=";" />
		<entry inchar="<"	outchar="." />
		<entry inchar="."		outchar=":" />
		<entry inchar=">"	outchar="/" />
		<entry inchar="/"		outchar=";" />
		<entry inchar=";"		outchar="m" />
		<entry inchar=":"		outchar="M" />
		<entry inchar="-"		outchar=")" />
		<entry inchar="\"		outchar="<" />
		<entry inchar="|"		outchar=">" />
		
		<entry inchar="!"		outchar="1" />
		<entry inchar="@"		outchar="2" />
		<entry inchar="#"		outchar="3" />
		<entry inchar="$"		outchar="4" />
		<entry inchar="%"		outchar="5" />
		<entry inchar="^"		outchar="6" />
		<entry inchar="&"	outchar="7" />
		<entry inchar="*"		outchar="8" />
		<entry inchar="("		outchar="9" />
		<entry inchar=")"		outchar="0" />
		
		<entry inchar="1"		outchar="&" />
		<entry inchar="2"		outchar="é" />
		<entry inchar="3"		outchar=""" />
		<entry inchar="4"		outchar="'" />
		<entry inchar="5"		outchar="(" />
		<entry inchar="6"		outchar="-" />
		<entry inchar="7"		outchar="è" />
		<entry inchar="8"		outchar="_" />
		<entry inchar="9"		outchar="ç" />
		<entry inchar="0"		outchar="à" />

		<entry inchar="a"		outchar="q" />
		<entry inchar="m"		outchar="," />
		<entry inchar="M"		outchar="?" />
		<entry inchar="q"		outchar="a" />
		<entry inchar="z"		outchar="w" />
		<entry inchar="w"		outchar="z" />
		
	</char2char>

</keyboard_layout>

You may need to restart XBMC4Xbox for it it take effect - give it a good test and let me know what else needs to be mapped to what, this is just the start. Once we get most of it, I'll create a ticket and request to be included in the next version.

PS: There is a difference between Shutdown menu > Reboot = cold restart (entire Xbox as a machine) and Restart = warm restart (reloads XBM4Xbox + configuration files, you just need this one).

[Cissoubaka]

It's working for the letters in the keyboardmap.xml

for the other letter rest only "m" and ";" to invert but there is a lot of difference with the ponctuation

see : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Clavier-Azerty.svg

and http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:KB ... andard.svg

[BuZz]

look at this example for Finnish and do the same sort of thing. I think if you want this done you should at least have a go yourself

http://trac.xbmc.org/attachment/ticket/ ... ardmap.xml

[Dan Dar3]

@Cissoubaka
I was kinda hoping you're going to give me a hand here and tell me what you're typing and what appears, maybe even picking up along the way
Ok, updated the listing above, try again and let me know what works and what not.

[Cissoubaka]

Sorry Dan Dar3

i'm not enough quick to work with you.
i'm testing it, it's working for the letter, there is some bug. I can work with you. but tomorrow this xbox will be gone....
I return it to my sys

I need to find another one to finish the work on the keyboardmap.xml

I want to say that there is some error in the french language file. i'm ready to correct them but i don't know how to do it.

[Dan Dar3]

@Cissoubaka
It's fine, we can resume the thread when you can, or maybe someone else will pick it up when they find the problem. Whoever does it though would have to confirm what doesn't work in simple terms, as to what key they press and what character appears.