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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 2 keycode questions
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Date: 11 Feb 89 18:10:48 GMT
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	"Don't,  don't believe,  don't believe the hype."

		Public Enemy "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back"

As I keep having to say these days,  X does not guarantee portability.
Keyboard handling is yet another area where portability is not guaranteed;
read the section of the spec. about Keysym Encoding for some of the
arguments in this area.

Further,  there is a comment in the file lib/X/XKeyBind.c:

/* Beware, here be monsters (still under construction... - JG */

This isn't just an accidental left-over from the alpha and beta days,
it is still true.  The whole question of conversion from keycodes to
strings in a suitable