[Accessibility] Re: Braille keysyms ?

Bill Haneman Bill.Haneman at Sun.COM
Mon Mar 13 08:55:46 PST 2006


Samuel wrote:
> X servers are becoming a target for accessibility. However, there is
> currently no braille keysyms yet. This would be useful for being able
> to express braille combinations typing (unicode already has the \U2800
> range for coding them). Since there are 256 braille combinations, 256
> keysyms would be needed.

Samuel, I believe Xlib already allows keysyms for any legal UCS-2 value.
For instance, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#x11

"Since X11R6.9, a keysym value has been allocated for every Unicode
character in Appendix A of the X Window System Protocol specification.
Any UCS character in the range U-00000100 to U-00FFFFFF can now be
represented by a keysym value in the range 0x01000100 to 0x01ffffff."

Regards,

Bill

> 
> What do X lib people think about this?
> 
> Regards,
> Samuel
> 
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