Sending arbitrary keysyms/Unicode without xcb_change_keyboard_mapping()

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 9/23/24 06:58, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> Random idea from Wikipedia [2]: Input the unicode codepoint as a hex sequence. I 
> just tried it with GVim and the described method works.
> 
> Of course, this does not work with XTerm nor urxvt. I guess because they does 
> not use XKB / libxkbcommon? I do not have gnome-terminal around, but I would 
> expect this to work there.

I think this works through input methods, which are implemented either as libX11
plugins (so don't work with xcb), or at the toolkit level, via things like IBus,
but I don't know enough details to say much more.

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