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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XLookupString status argument nyi
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Date: 5 Sep 90 23:28:04 GMT
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In article <2464@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>, ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes:
|> We were using Motif 1.0.n on a DECstation using DECs Xlib.  Composing
|> diacritical characters such as german ``umlaut'' using the compose
|> key worked just fine.  After porting that to a triton computer using
|> the original Xr4 Xlib, the compose key did not work anymore. 

While the Xlib spec does provide a hook for compose processing (the
last argument in XLookupString), the X11R4 sample Xlib does not
implement this.  DEC added compose processing to it's Xlib to support
European keyboards.  As international support is pretty popular these
days, other vendors may have done the same to their Xlibs.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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