Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote on 2002-11-14 16:00 UTC: > Just for my own knowledge, what would be the disadvantage of creating a > new set of keysyms for Syriac as already has been done for several other > languages?
There is nothing wrong in principle with adding new keysyms, however the integer number associated with new keysyms for which there is an equivalent Unicode U-00xxxxxx character MUST be 0x01xxxxxx, because we do not want to let the keysym table grow needlessly (to more than 60000 entries). However, since keysyms are never visible to anyone but people who write keyboard layout tables, it is a senseless exercise to add new ones, so we stopped it entirely and now consider keysyms merely to be a frozen pre-Unicode era artifact. Keysyms will only be added for keyboard keys, for which it is unlikely that there will ever be a good equivalent in Unicode. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
