RE: Unicode in unix keybord


Subject: RE: Unicode in unix keybord
From: Henrik Berg (henrik@lansen.se)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 04:45:09 CDT


> This is my _draft proposition_ how to get unicode chars from unix
> keyboard.
> This patch is for europe latin based languages, greek, cyrillic.
> I'm not sure it's working fine and working with all europe languages.
> Any comments, corrections are accepted.

I looked at the patch and it looks like a good start. Basicly the same I did in Win32, except I could use Win32 system keyboard translation. I still hope that we can find a compleate X11key-->Unicode translation. Some one must have done it before.

One thing about the keybindings. If you could include in the patch a default for 'insertData'. I can't find any good reason to have the table filled with:

  {0x455, /* */ { "insertData", "", "", "" }},
  {0x456, /* I UKR/BYEL */ { "insertData", "", "", "" }},
  {0x457, /* YI UKR */ { "insertData", "", "", "" }},
  {0x458, /* */ { "insertData", "", "", "" }},
  {0x459, /* */ { "insertData", "", "", "" }},

just to add the character to the document. This should be the deafult behavior. Maybe we need to add undefined characters to the list to avoid them to be inserted.

--hb



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