X11 KeySym to Unicode mapping?

David Faure dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Wed Oct 29 17:56:41 GMT 2003


On Wednesday 29 October 2003 18:47, Shaheed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After much scratching of head, I finally realised that an X11 KeySym is not 
> the same as a Unicode value (of course its *obvious* when you think about 
> it!). The closest thing to a mapping I can find is:
> 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/keysym2ucs.c
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/keysym2ucs.h
> 
> But the question is, is there already an equivalent mapping somewhere else in 
> KDE or Qt, or should I just add these files to kdenonbeta/viki?

XLookupString ?
For the full story see QETWidget::translateKeyEventInternal in qapplication_x11.cpp

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