mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (10/25/90)
Archive-name: justin-compose/23-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU Original-subject: Re: International Keyboard support for X Archive-site: larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu [132.206.4.3] Archive-directory: /X Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) > Indeed, all the magic resides in Xlib. One of the advantage of using > Open Windows 2.0 is that Sun has completed the Compose part of Xlib. On the other hand, they have completed it in their way. If your way happens to disagree with theirs, tough. Now if you MIT X, on the other hand, you can do anything you like to it. UTSL, y'know. > [Will there be support for compose and dead keys] for everybody on > R5??? Well, at least one implementation exists. I know a person who implemented compose-character processing for MIT X11R4. He gave me his implementation to put up for anonymous ftp; it can be gotten from 132.206.1.1, in X/justin-compose. If you add a few keysyms for dead-acute, dead-grave, dead-circumflex, etc, it does dead keys as well (or so he tells me - I haven't tried it myself). It is not an optimal implementation, but it's sure a lot better than nothing. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu