Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!netcom!amdcad!sun!exodus!imryrr.Eng.Sun.COM!elric From: elric@imryrr.Eng.Sun.COM (Rick Heli) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: International Keyboard support for X Message-ID: <1857@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 30 Oct 90 21:55:06 GMT Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 39 In article <1990Oct22.124125@sasun1.epfl.ch> writes: >In article <9010220805.AA11311@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCI LL.EDU writes: >> 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.) The OpenWindows version 2 Xlib defines the three dead keys which appear on Sun keyboards in X11/Sunkeysym.h. These have now been registered with the Consortium and will in the future appear in XKeysymDB. > Sun does provide support for Compose keys, and in the MIT's distrib >there is a keysym: Multi-Key. For example 'e would give >you ``i'' for those who use an appropriate font with an 8 bit OS, >assuming this character makes it through the news software... :-(. It didn't, at least not to me. To explain, I believe this meant ' e generates the e-acute character (code 233). > On the other hand der Mouse is right in that there is no support >for "dead" keys per se meaning typing 'e and expect to see >the appropriate letter with an ' above it. But there is support >to compose a sequence of keys into >a single character (eg: co for the copyright symbol). This is correct. However, on most Sun type 4 keyboards -- US and UK versions excepted -- there are dead keys (aka "floating accent keys") which do have this functionality supported in OpenWindows version 2. Rick Heli Window Systems Platforms -- Rick Heli Internet: rheli@sun.COM