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Bug#201884: xfree86: soft hyphen confusion



retitle 201884 xfree86: want Unicode hyphen keysym
severity 201884 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
> Package: xfree86
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-18
> Severity: minor
> 
> Not sure which of the many X packages is responsible for this... or
> perhaps even locales...
> 
> I have the following line in my xmodmap:
> keycode  61 = minus underscore endash hyphen
> 
> Unfortunately, the letter produced is then U00AD, that is the Latin-1
> Soft Hyphen, instead of U2010, the Unicode Hyphen. The keysym name
> suggests otherwise, and there is no way I can see to get a hyphen.

As far as I know, XFree86 doesn't yet support Unicode keysyms.

This could be different in XFree86 4.3.0, but I haven't looked closely
at the issue yet.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     I suspect Linus wrote that in a
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     complicated way only to be able to
branden@debian.org                 |     have that comment in there.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Lars Wirzenius

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