NetBSD Problem Report #57234

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From: m.kozlowski@mini.pw.edu.pl
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To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wskbd : "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work. It doesn't
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>Number:         57234
>Category:       port-amd64
>Synopsis:       https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wskbd : "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work. It doesn't
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-amd64-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 17 20:25:00 +0000 2023
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 20 14:05:01 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Marek
>Release:        9.3, fresh install
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD t400net 9.3 NetBSD 9.3 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Aug  4 15:30:37 UTC 2022  mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

>Description:
Fresh install. 

# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl
wsconsctl: WSKBDIO_SETENCODING: invalid argument

It work for Italian, btw
>How-To-Repeat:
Exactly as above
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
From: RVP <rvp@faeroes.freeshell.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/57234: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wskbd
 : "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work. It doesn't
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:58:32 +0000 (UTC)

 Looks like that section and the wskbd.4 manpage should be updated. The
 "pl" encoding is not present in the kernel. Neither are these: cz, ru, ua.
 The "fi" (Finnish) encoding isn't present either, but, setting it works
 because "sv" and "fi" share the same numeric value:

 ```
 $ egrep 'KB_(FI|SV)' /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h
 action(KB_FI,   0,      0x0900, "fi",   ,       "Finnish")              \
 action(KB_SV,   0,      0x0900, "sv",   ,       "Swedish")              \
 $
 ```

 To get a "pl" encoding, try one of the keymap files present in

 /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/

 In /etc/wscons.conf, add a line like:

 mapfile /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/pckbd.pl.iso8859-2

 -RVP

From: Marek Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@mini.pw.edu.pl>
To: <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/57234:
 https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wskbd : "#
 wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work. It doesn't
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:32:52 +0100

 On 2/18/23 10:00, RVP wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/57234; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: RVP <rvp@faeroes.freeshell.org>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/57234: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wskbd
 >   : "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work. It doesn't
 > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:58:32 +0000 (UTC)
 > 
 >   Looks like that section and the wskbd.4 manpage should be updated. The
 >   "pl" encoding is not present in the kernel. Neither are these: cz, ru, ua.
 >   The "fi" (Finnish) encoding isn't present either, but, setting it works
 >   because "sv" and "fi" share the same numeric value:
 >   
 >   ```
 >   $ egrep 'KB_(FI|SV)' /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h
 >   action(KB_FI,   0,      0x0900, "fi",   ,       "Finnish")              \
 >   action(KB_SV,   0,      0x0900, "sv",   ,       "Swedish")              \
 >   $
 >   ```
 >   
 >   To get a "pl" encoding, try one of the keymap files present in
 >   
 >   /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/
 >   
 >   In /etc/wscons.conf, add a line like:
 >   
 >   mapfile /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/pckbd.pl.iso8859-2

 After that change may keyboard gets completely unusable, I'm unable to 
 even login:

 qwertyuiop keys map to mnepqrstov or sth like this :-(

 Best regards,
 Marek

From: RVP <rvp@SDF.ORG>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: m.kozlowski@mini.pw.edu.pl
Subject: Re: port-amd64/57234: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wskbd
 : "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work. It doesn't
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 07:35:38 +0000 (UTC)

 On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, Marek Kozlowski wrote:

 > After that change may keyboard gets completely unusable, I'm unable to
 > even login:
 >
 > qwertyuiop keys map to mnepqrstov or sth like this :-(
 >

 If you have a USB keyboard, please try this keymap file
 (ukbd.pl.iso8859-2):

 ```
 # $Id$
 #
 # This is a Polish QWERTY keymap for USB keyboards.
 # Base keycode = US (sys/dev/hid/hidkbdmap.c)

 keycode 4=a A plusminus exclamdown
 keycode 6=c C ae AE
 keycode 8=e E ecircumflex Ecircumflex
 keycode 15=l L threesuperior sterling
 keycode 17=n N ntilde Ntilde
 keycode 18=o O oacute Oacute
 keycode 22=s S paragraph brokenbar
 keycode 27=x X onequarter notsign
 keycode 29=z Z questiondown macron
 keycode 230=Mode_switch Multi_key
 ```

 If you have both PS/2 and USB keyboards, then you'll have to load
 the correct keymap for each keyboard. Use something like this in
 /etc/rc.local:

 ```
 mapkey() {
  	dev=$1
  	file=$2
  	while read line
  	do	echo "$line" | grep -Eq '^[[:blank:]]*(#|$)' ||
  		    wsconsctl -f /dev/"$dev" -w map+="$line"
  	done < "$file"
 }
 mapkey wskbd0 /etc/key-ps2.txt >/dev/null && echo -n ' wskbd0'
 mapkey wskbd1 /etc/key-usb.txt >/dev/null && echo -n ' wskbd1'
 unset -f mapkey
 ```

 Right now there's no simple method to apply a per-keyboard mapfile
 in /etc/rc.conf

 -RVP

From: "Nia Alarie" <nia@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/57234 CVS commit: src/sys/dev
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 16:50:54 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	nia
 Date:		Sat May 24 16:50:54 UTC 2025

 Modified Files:
 	src/sys/dev/hid: hidkbdmap.c
 	src/sys/dev/pckbport: wskbdmap_mfii.c

 Log Message:
 wskbd(4): Define USB and PS/2 keymaps for KB_PL

 This is the de-facto standard "Polish programmers" QWERTY keyboard,
 what X11 simply calls "Polish". It's a simple variation of US QWERTY
 with some extra characters when right alt is pressed.

 Defining this layout is slightly optimistic, since even with latin-2
 fonts loaded and the appropriate locale set, wscons seems to struggle
 to input most of these characters.

 Regardless, this allows the supposedly supported "pl" encoding
 to not fail loading with an error message, and allows X11 to
 auto-detect the keyboard layout (defining KB_PL and as an alias of
 KB_US also accomplishes this goal), with room for proper UTF-8
 support in the future.

 PR port-amd64/57234 "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work.
 PR kern/57844 wscons doesn't support encoding=pl contrary to wskbd(4) man page
 PR install/58405 Selecting Polish keyboard type in sysinst is useless


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 src/sys/dev/hid/hidkbdmap.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.35 -r1.36 src/sys/dev/pckbport/wskbdmap_mfii.c

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

From: "Martin Husemann" <martin@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/57234 CVS commit: [netbsd-10] src/sys/dev
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:03:00 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	martin
 Date:		Mon Oct 20 14:03:00 UTC 2025

 Modified Files:
 	src/sys/dev/hid [netbsd-10]: hidkbdmap.c
 	src/sys/dev/pckbport [netbsd-10]: wskbdmap_mfii.c

 Log Message:
 Pull up following revision(s) (requested by nia in ticket #1180):

 	sys/dev/hid/hidkbdmap.c: revision 1.16
 	sys/dev/pckbport/wskbdmap_mfii.c: revision 1.36

 wskbd(4): Define USB and PS/2 keymaps for KB_PL

 This is the de-facto standard "Polish programmers" QWERTY keyboard,
 what X11 simply calls "Polish". It's a simple variation of US QWERTY
 with some extra characters when right alt is pressed.

 Defining this layout is slightly optimistic, since even with latin-2
 fonts loaded and the appropriate locale set, wscons seems to struggle
 to input most of these characters.

 Regardless, this allows the supposedly supported "pl" encoding
 to not fail loading with an error message, and allows X11 to
 auto-detect the keyboard layout (defining KB_PL and as an alias of
 KB_US also accomplishes this goal), with room for proper UTF-8
 support in the future.

 PR port-amd64/57234 "# wsconsctl -k -w encoding=pl" *should* work.
 PR kern/57844 wscons doesn't support encoding=pl contrary to wskbd(4) man page
 PR install/58405 Selecting Polish keyboard type in sysinst is useless


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.15.4.1 src/sys/dev/hid/hidkbdmap.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.35 -r1.35.4.1 src/sys/dev/pckbport/wskbdmap_mfii.c

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

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