Re: Dead keys in X.
Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva wrote:
> First, thank you for all the help.
>
> Well, today I decided to read more carefully about what does XKB
> support.
>
> The main texts where I got information (after digging the net) were:
>
> http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/
> http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/dead-keys.en.html
>
> And the README file in the diacrd-brazilian package (I'll copy it at the
> end of the mail).
>
> As far as I could understand, the XKeyboard extensions only support X
> applications that were correctly configured, as the following text
> shows:
>
> "16.2 Using Latin-1 Keyboard Event Functions
> Chapter 13 describes internationalized text input facilities, but
> sometimes it is expedient to write an
> application that only deals with Latin-1 characters and ASCII
> controls, so Xlib provides a simple
> function for that purpose. XLookupString handles the standard
> modifier semantics described in
> section 12.7. This function does not use any of the input method
> facilities described in chapter 13 and
> does not depend on the current locale.
> To map a key event to an ISO Latin-1 string, use XLookupString."
>
> But most of the X applications are not using XLookupString, at least
> that what is told in the first URL above. One example is my netscape
> 4.05. Another funny example is StarOffice4 (in fact it supports the new
> X style, but due to a bug it doesn't work well with tildes!).
>
> So even if I manage to configure XKB to give me the dead keys I'll be
> without its support in some programs.
Right. There has to be application support. At least you can get your keyboard to work
though right! I'm surprised netscape doesn't work because I fairly frequently get
emails which have accented characters (and I use netscape mail). Hmmm, perhaps you
should issue a bug against the package maintainers about this. Good luck.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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