Re: KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-28 Thread walter harms
Am 28.01.2012 00:48, schrieb Troy Watson: >> Because Unicode was invented years after Xlib and no one ever went back >> to add such a thing? Most of the Xlib API is codeset independent since >> it was written in the days when every locale used a different character >> set (ISO 8859-*, Big5, JIS

Re: KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-27 Thread Troy Watson
> Because Unicode was invented years after Xlib and no one ever went back > to add such a thing? Most of the Xlib API is codeset independent since > it was written in the days when every locale used a different character > set (ISO 8859-*, Big5, JIS, etc.), so you get a char buffer appropriate >

Re: KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/25/12 12:55 AM, Troy Watson wrote: Thanks for the reply - Is that what I want though? Looking at http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man3/XkbTranslateKeySym.3.xhtml it returns me a KeySym and a char buffer filled with... something. I just want a keysym->unicode code point conversion.

Re: KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Troy Watson, le Wed 25 Jan 2012 18:55:37 +1000, a écrit : > Thanks for the reply - Is that what I want though? Looking at > http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man3/XkbTranslateKeySym.3.xhtml > it returns me a KeySym See the text: it takes a keysym, and returns another one if the keyboard st

Re: KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-25 Thread Troy Watson
On 1/24/12, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Troy Watson, le Tue 24 Jan 2012 17:36:10 +1000, a écrit : >> Does there exist a function in Xlib as simple as this... >> >> wchar_t unicode = XKeySymToUnicode( KeySym ) >> >> ...to map a KeySym to it's Unicode equivalent? If not, why? What's >> available to ach

Re: KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Troy Watson, le Tue 24 Jan 2012 17:36:10 +1000, a écrit : > Does there exist a function in Xlib as simple as this... > > wchar_t unicode = XKeySymToUnicode( KeySym ) > > ...to map a KeySym to it's Unicode eqivilent? If not, why? What's > available to achieve similar results? XkbTranslateKeySym?

KeySym to Unicode?

2012-01-23 Thread Troy Watson
Does there exist a function in Xlib as simple as this... wchar_t unicode = XKeySymToUnicode( KeySym ) ...to map a KeySym to it's Unicode eqivilent? If not, why? What's available to achieve similar results? ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development A