Alan Coopersmith wrote on 2004-08-16 16:35 UTC: > Markus Kuhn wrote: > > I have substantially revised and updated the long neglected KEYSYM > > Encoding specification in Appendix A of the X11 Protocol Standard. The > > result, which I propose for inclusion into the next X.Org release, > > is on > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/X11.keysyms.pdf > > While this looks good at a first glance, I think at this point it will > have to wait for the release after X11R6.8 since there's simply not time > for everyone to review it in the week remaining to the planned release > of R6.8.
OK, fair enough. I'll probably put some more work into it. In particular, I believe that the table of function keys should probably be turned into a format that makes it possible to have one or more descriptive sentences associated with each function key, to illuminate its source and purpose much better. The current simple names for each function key are often quite cryptic and not exactly very useful definitions of what these keysyms are good for and where they came from. After that, we can start looking at the various new multimedia/Internet keys on recent PC keyboards, as well as the archeology necessary to uncover what many of the more obscure older function keys were exactly meant to mean. (E.g., why were all the ISO 9995-7 "shift" keys called "ISO ... latch", etc.?) But before I touch this again, do send me any comments that you have on the current version. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n