Re: [AD] From AL: Dead keys in allegro/mandrake

[Julien Cugnière <jcugniere@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elias Pschernig wrote:
> I'm actually wondering now what the X11 keycodes are. They seem to have
> a similiar function than PC HW codes - i.e. they don't change with
> localization. Maybe they could be used for a direct mapping somehow?
> Only an X11 expert would know.

I'm certainly not that expert :-) but the doc I found at 
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/input/keyboard-encoding.html says:

"A KeyCode value carries no intrinsic information, although server 
implementors may attempt to encode geometry (for example, matrix) 
information in some fashion so that it can be interpreted in a 
server-dependent fashion"

This means that differents servers will most likely have different 
keycodes. But this also means that we may be able to do something for 
the linux/XFree86 case. This would solve the problem for a lot of 
people, but not for the generic X11 case.

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Julien Cugnière