X11 keysym to Unicode mapping

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 21:13:08 EDT


Has anyone done a machine-readable mapping table between the characters
in the X11 keyboard symbols list

  ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/X11/pub/R6.4/xc/include/keysymdef.h

and Unicode? I am about to prepare one and I just want to check
quickly whether this hasn't already been done before.

(BTW: Recent XFree86 xterm development versions do now support UTF-8;
only the keyboard support is still incomplete. For details, check
<http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.html> and get patch version 103
or higher. Try "xterm -u8". Since the UTF-8 support in Xlib seems to be
still incomplete, UTF-8 has to be hardwired into xterm at the moment and
cannot yet be handled via the Xlib multi-byte locale string functions.)

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>



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