Keysym additions.

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Jim Gettys, le Thu 21 Sep 2006 15:12:51 -0400, a écrit :
> > > e) Last, but not least, kids may be learning languages.  So we'd like
> > > some way to indicate a mode switch to a different language.  But given
> > > the number of languages in the world, it isn't clear to me we want to
> > > add a mode switch for each and every of hundreds, or even thousands of
> > > languages.  (or do we?  the most common languages is just a 100-200
> > > languages, IIRC).
> > 
> > Dude, you can't add 200 keysyms for languages.
> 
> heh: we could; we have 32 bits of address space.

Mmm, that's rather 29.

> I wasn't seriously
> suggesting it, but I did want people to at least think about it.  We
> could incorporate the ISO language specs into a piece of the address
> space.

ISO language codes are 2-or-3-a-z-letter codes. This can be encoded
thanks to 3x5 bits.

Samuel