From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751367AbVHNBTU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:19:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751368AbVHNBTU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:19:20 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.89]:32484 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751367AbVHNBTT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:19:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1123981065.14138.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> <1123958572.11295.7.camel@mindpipe> <20050813184951.GA8283@carfax.org.uk> <1123959201.11295.9.camel@mindpipe> <1123981065.14138.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <896E8B77-FD22-4898-BFE5-559936B8040E@mac.com> Cc: Lee Revell , Hugo Mills , Stephen Pollei , =?ISO-8859-1?Q? "Martin_v._L=F6wis" ?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:19:02 -0400 To: Alan Cox X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug 13, 2005, at 20:57:45, Alan Cox wrote: >>> I have "setxkbmap -symbols 'en_US(pc102)+gb'" in my ~/.xsession, >>> and « and » are available as AltGr-z and AltGr-x respectively. >> >> Most keyboards don't have an AltGr key. > > You must be an American. Most old the worlds keyboards have an AltGr > key. You'll find that US keyboards have two alt keys to avoid > confusing > people (like one button mice ;)) but the right one is understood by > the > X bindings to be "AltGr". Even though the US keyboard is apparently > lacking functionality its purely a text label issue And those of us who are Mac OS X oriented have patched our console and X keycodes to match the mac way of generating symbols: Alt-\ = « Alt-Shift-\ = » Alt-Shift-+ = ± If only someone could come up with a good character palette like exists on that OS, something that could generate a wide variety of keysyms, preferably all of UTF-8, and send them to the topmost window. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn