Hi Max,

On 10 Aug 2015, at 20:25, Max Truxa  wrote:

> IMO this mailing list is not the right place for questions about C syntax, is 
> it not?

Indeed it isn't. Would it not be about Unicode implementation, I wouldn't have 
sent it to the Unicode Mailing List. 
Whatever language, it's about getting SMP characters into the place where the 
OS stores the keyboard layout. I stick with the idea that this mustn't stay 
limited to the BMP. IMHO the ligatures made of a surrogates pair in MSKLC 
keyboards are a sort of workaround, while something isn't really fit for 
UTF-16. The idea wasn't to throttle the OS down to BMP, was it? The SMP simply 
didn't exist yet. Now it does, things get screwed up.

> Correct syntax would be: [...] 0xD835, 0xDCEA, 0xD835, 0xDCD0, [...]

The problem with the commas here is that they don't only separate, they 
increment the modification number. The trailing surrogate must stay together 
with the leading one on the same shift state.

As I say, it's got screwed up. However, I'll try with just removing the 
parentheses, hoping that the surrogates will be automatically grouped together.

By contrast, I've the good news to bring in that the test SMP keyboard layout 
works on Word 2013. When I press the key with U+1D4EA and U+1D4D0, the glyphs 
are directly inserted. So there's one less problem.

Best regards,

Marcel

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