On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:45 pm, Keith Packard wrote: > Just to clarify -- there is no single unique name that represents the > functions of these keys, they are named by the combination of symbols as > shown here. And these keys are commonly available on Arabic keyboards > using this same "symbol", with the same conventional meaning. > > Do you have a picture we can see?
yes, I named them after the letters they combine, and this is what they are called in Arabic language, for instance : Arabic_lam_alef = Arabic_lam + Arabic_alef > > > Please excuse me for my ignorance in XFree structure, but how can I know > > what the keysym will return > > The keysym is just a number representing the symbol on the key; once we > define it for XFree86, it will always be the same number and be provided in > keysymdef.h. Applications are free to do whatever they want with this > keysym value. > > > As I understood the keysym code does not represent any actual charset , > > right ? > > Yes. Keysyms are just numbers; the translation of keysym to application > action is not prescripted by the protocol. > > > This whole thing for me confused, but I am determain to fix this issue > > what ever it takes :-) > > If my understanding is correct, we're not far from a solution now. Adding > new keysyms is relatively easy once the decision is made that the new > symbol is necessary. OK .. now what application does take the keysym input and puts the correct characters where needed ? :-) can anyone tell me where is this whole thing documented so I can follow a one key press to see where it goes to know where should we make the application take the two letters LAM and ALEF when pressing the LAM_ALEF key and returning the keysym code for it ( not yet defined) .. when I am in any X program that take keyboard input, what part of the XFree system return the code to the program, programs such as VIM when compiles with X support takes Unicode input, not keysym, so who tells the VIM the unicode of the letter returned ? it is sure some X part :-) am I right ? I am very sorry if I seem to be in a lack of info in that issue, I would be very thankful if anyone would guide to to the place where I can get information about keyboard and keyboard input in XFree86 .. -- Yours, Isam Bayazidi Amman - Jordan ==================================================== Think Linux + Think Arabic = Think www.arabeyes.org ==================================================== _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
