Bug 6887

Summary: Add XK_dead_stroke to keysymdef.h
Product: xorg Reporter: Egbert Eich <eich>
Component: Lib/XlibAssignee: Daniel Stone <daniel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: simos.bugzilla
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Description Egbert Eich 2006-05-10 19:59:46 UTC 
Troy Korjuslommi sent the following request to xorg-arch@.
To me this request seems to make sense, however the xkb maintainer should
ulitmately decide. I'm adding it here so it doesn't get dropped on the floor.

[the component is slightly wrong - but I couldn't find xkb nor proto/X11]
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Hi,

I wanted to inquire about making an addition to the 
keysymdef.h file.

Alan Coopersmith said this was the right forum to request
this change.

I am part of the Kotoistus project in Finland. We have
defined a new keyboard layout for Finland. The layout
has been approved by Microsoft, and will be in Vista.
(The Kotoistus project is also a member of Unicode.org for 
CLDR work.)
 
I am in the process of building a keyboard setup for
X windows, and for Linux in particular. 

One problem I have come across is that we need a dead_stroke
key. I discussed this with Simos Xenitellis, and he mentioned
that there was some need for a a dead_stroke character also
for cyrillic scripts.

I was wondering if it was possible to define Ufe63 as dead_stroke?
I.e.
#define XK_dead_stroke    0xfe63

You can find the new layout for Finnish at
http://kotoistus.tksoft.com/linux/symbols_fi.txt


Thank you,



Troy Korjuslommi                Tksoft Inc.
tjk@tksoft.com
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2006-05-10 21:14:09 UTC 
that would be 0x1000fe63, rather than 0xfe63, but I don't see a problem with this.
Comment 2 Jim Gettys 2006-05-10 21:31:20 UTC 
Is there a unicode code point for this?  If so, why not just use the unicode
part of the keysym space for defining this.
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2006-05-10 21:38:19 UTC 
UFE63 seems to be 'small hyphen-minus', or so gucharmap tells me.  is that the
intention?
Comment 4 Troy Korjuslommi 2006-05-11 00:51:42 UTC 
I picked the value as it is the value after "XK_dead_horn  0xfe62."

Dead stroke doesn't really exist in the same sense as the other dead
letters (which have a corresponding unicode character). The mapping 
to unicode characters must be done on a character by character basis.
It is just convenient to have it, as otherwise we need to assign
a key on the keyboard for each of the characters which have some kind
of stroke in them.
Comment 5 Troy Korjuslommi 2006-05-13 18:37:48 UTC 
Bug 6901, the new Finnish keyboard map, uses this key. For now the value is
used, not the word dead_stroke. See the Compose file referenced in the bug
report for how dead_stroke will be used. I guess it makes sense to submit a bug
report on the additions to Compose file only after dead_stroke can be used as a
name...
Comment 6 Daniel Stone 2006-06-01 16:37:14 UTC 
committed to xproto HEAD, released as 7.0.7

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