Can't map keys with keycodes > 127 to modifiers?

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:07:57PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> The Menu key on a USB keyboard, the one that sends keycode 117, is also mapped
> to ISO_Level3_Shift.  It autorepeats, but despite that the state bit flips to
> 0x80 while I hold it down.  xmodmap shows both 0xe3 (227) and 0x75 (117) among
> the keys mapped to mod5.
> 
> The only difference I can think of is that one keycode is < 128, while
> the other one needs full 8 bits.  Just a blind guess, but could the XKB
> code be using signed chars somewhere and sign-extending them to ints?

This is brilliantly awesome.  XKB lamely attempts to swap char and int
everywhere, but it's pretty fascist about using signed char, last I
checked.  Could you please file a bug, and assign it to me?

Cheers,
Daniel
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