Jungshik Shin wrote on 2002-09-07 21:27 UTC:
>    As you know well, it's implemented by some application programs
> (e.g. Yudit and Vim). Having this in the keyboard driver may be a good
> idea. Some MS Windows applications using 'richtext edit' control (or
> sth. like that) have this where 'Alt-X' followed by 4 hex digit produces
> a Unicode character. There's even an ISO standard for this. It's very
> generic and  Yudit, Vim and MS Windows method are all compliant to
> the standard.

The mentioned ISO standard (though it doesn't use Alt-X):

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-14755.pdf

Markus

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