Re: KeySym to Unicode?
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, etc.), so you get a char buffer appropriate to the current locale. There were a few UTF-8 specific additions in later years, but mostly we've been trying to let Xlib rest in peace since then, pushing new API design towards xcb instead. Thank you for the definitive answer. Will such a function exist in XCB? I can't imagine any windowing system that wouldn't need such functionality, which is why GTK, QT et al. implement their own for Xlib. Looking at the code for Awesome Window Manger (which uses XCB) they have a simple keysym_to_utf8 function already. I guess this is going off topic here and belongs in xcb-devel... If you think it would be useful maybe you can prepare a patch ? re, wh ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
Re: KeySym to Unicode?
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 to the current locale. There were a few UTF-8 specific additions in later years, but mostly we've been trying to let Xlib rest in peace since then, pushing new API design towards xcb instead. Thank you for the definitive answer. Will such a function exist in XCB? I can't imagine any windowing system that wouldn't need such functionality, which is why GTK, QT et al. implement their own for Xlib. Looking at the code for Awesome Window Manger (which uses XCB) they have a simple keysym_to_utf8 function already. I guess this is going off topic here and belongs in xcb-devel... ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
Re: KeySym to Unicode?
On 1/24/12, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org 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 achieve similar results? XkbTranslateKeySym? Samuel 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. I'm starting to think such a thing doesn't exist in Xlib, for some unfathomable reason. ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
Re: KeySym to Unicode?
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 state is supposed to change it. and a char buffer filled with... something. Which is the best description of the keysym you can imagine. I just want a keysym-unicode code point conversion. Convert the string to unicode then. Samuel ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
Re: KeySym to Unicode?
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? Samuel ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
KeySym to Unicode?
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 Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
