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From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Re:  more idraw enhancement suggestions
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Date: 30 Apr 91 00:54:51 GMT
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In article <9104292109.AA29464@ms.secs.csun.edu>, mrs@MS.SECS.CSUN.EDU (Mike Stump) writes:
|> > From: rosen@bucrf3.bu.edu (David B. Rosen)
|> > Subject: more idraw enhancement suggestions
|> > Message-Id: <ROSEN.91Apr28215642@polar.bu.edu>
|> > References: <1991Apr17.125617.19077@ira.uka.de>
|> > 
|> > Congratulations to the authors of idraw, unidraw, and interviews for
|> > writing some great software.  Here's my list of suggestions for
|> > enhanced capabilities of idraw:
|> > 
|> > 2) Ability to use the entire postscript character set in text objects
|> > (not just the bottom 128!).
|> 
|> Gee, we added this back in 2.5 or 2.6, did they take it out?!
|> (I guess the switch to Unidraw messed this functionality up!  We
|> should protest, and get it back, patches anyone?)
|> 
|> I looked thru the Unidraw stuff quickly, but could not find the code to
|> patch, if someone points out the place where a single keyboard event
|> goes when text is selected for editing goes, I will provide the patch.

8-bit characters should work fine.  lib/IV-X11/xevent.c turns on the 8-bit
when the meta-key is down, so this handling is performed for all applications.