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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Keysyms and function keys
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Date: 20 Dec 88 16:33:41 GMT
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Once again.

Keysyms describe the symbols that are painted on the keys.  The only
reason you should ever use ChangeKeyboardMapping is if you paint different
symbols on keys.

The way these Keysyms are interpreted is up to each individual client.
The X server has no such concept as the control-A key,  and no such
concept as ASCII when it comes to keys.  Like the rest of X11,  the
keyboard support is designed to support simultaneously clients with
different ideas about character sets and their encodings.  That is
why the server rigourously avoids using ASCII anywhere.

If you want your client to interpret:

	A down-transition of the key with an A painted on it with the
	control modifier bit set

as an Insert command,  you must set up whatever translation tables
your client is using to have that effect.  There is nothing you can
do to the server to have this effect.

	David.