On 01/25/12 12:55 AM, Troy Watson wrote:
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.
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.
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Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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