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
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