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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  International Keyboard support for X
Message-ID: <9010220805.AA11311@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 90 08:05:28 GMT
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> I see there is started code for handling Compose sequences in Xlib;
> What is the best way for a server writer to implement the
> functionality of compose keys.

(Is that a question or a statement?)

The server writer shouldn't.  Compose-character is done on the client
side of the client/server split.

> What is the best way to handle dead key's which I understand can be
> pressed and released (unlike modifier keys)  before the associated
> key is pressed

(Dead key's *what*?  A possessive needs something to possess.)

Again, the server has no business knowing that a given key is supposed
to be a dead key.  As I understand it there is currently no Xlib
support for dead keys.  (There are no keysyms for them either, which
IMO is a serious omission that should be rectified at the next
opportunity, whenever that is.)

					der Mouse

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