Keyboard change request: dead_stroke

[Egbert Eich]

I've created a ticket for this 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6887
so it doesn't get dropped on the floor.

Cheers,
	Egbert.

Troy writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I wanted to inquire about making an addition to the 
 > keysymdef.h file.
 > 
 > Alan Coopersmith said this was the right forum to request
 > this change.
 > 
 > I am part of the Kotoistus project in Finland. We have
 > defined a new keyboard layout for Finland. The layout
 > has been approved by Microsoft, and will be in Vista.
 > (The Kotoistus project is also a member of Unicode.org for 
 > CLDR work.)
 >  
 > I am in the process of building a keyboard setup for
 > X windows, and for Linux in particular. 
 > 
 > One problem I have come across is that we need a dead_stroke
 > key. I discussed this with Simos Xenitellis, and he mentioned
 > that there was some need for a a dead_stroke character also
 > for cyrillic scripts.
 > 
 > I was wondering if it was possible to define Ufe63 as dead_stroke?
 > I.e.
 > #define XK_dead_stroke    0xfe63
 > 
 > You can find the new layout for Finnish at
 > http://kotoistus.tksoft.com/linux/symbols_fi.txt
 > 
 > 
 > Thank you,
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Troy Korjuslommi                Tksoft Inc.
 > tjk at tksoft.com
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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