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By author: "Maiorana, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> >For Unicode characters for which there doesn't exist a historic X11
> >keysym, use by convention 0x0100XXYY, where XXYY is the Unicode value
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> >the character. Xterm and many other X11 applications understand that
> >convention.
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> offhand, does anyone know what convention there is for
> unicode characters beyond 0xFFFF? In the older X API, there isnt
> alot of support for beyond-BMP characters.
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It seems that 0x01XXXXXX should work just fine, where U+XXXXXX is the
Unicode character. Covers 24 bits, which is more than the 20.087 bits
of (post-UTF-16) Unicode.
-hpa
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