[Xcb] looking up the right keysym and retrieving printable chars

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le samedi 6 février 2010 18:34:17 Moritz Bruder, vous avez écrit :
> how do you retrieve the correct keysymbols and get a string if the
> keysymbol is printable?

I'm not sure I understand your question. You want to find what character to 
print on a key press? First you need to apply the logic already explained by 
Julien.

Then you need to find what character correspond to the correct key symbol.

The full list is in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h (or whatever it's called on 
your system). Latin-1 code points represent themselves (0x00-0xFF). Other 
(non-Latin-1) Unicode code points have an offset of 0x1000000, *except* when 
they don't. Unfortunately, there is a large list of X11 key symbols predating 
Unicode.

I believe I have the full table here:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=modules/video_output/xcb/keysym.h;hb=HEAD
generated with that:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=modules/video_output/xcb/keysym.c;hb=HEAD

Have fun...

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