[Accessibility] Re: Braille keysyms ?

[Samuel Thibault]

Bill Haneman, le Mon 13 Mar 2006 16:55:46 +0000, a écrit :
> 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."

Yes, I also got this answer on xorg list :) (and should have read
keysymdef.h before asking).

Were're currently working on how to work with keycodes.

Regards,
Samuel