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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Typing unicode
From:       Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () cirulla ! net>
Date:       2006-03-02 17:31:43
Message-ID: 200603021831.43336.mikelima () cirulla ! net
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On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:25, Lubos Lunak wrote:

>
>  The problem there is - how are you going to feed that character to the
> running application? If you add this feature to khotkeys then after
> khotkeys handles the user input and knows it has to enter <some char> to
> the running app, it needs to tell it. Input action in khotkeys simply
> sends XKeyEvent to the active app, but that one only contains keycode and
> modifiers state. And you cannot enter <some obscure unicode char> this
> way if you can't find the keycode and modifiers state for it (and you
> generally can't, otherwise you'd simply type it in normally). So I think
> this needs at least some code in the applications for it.

Well, not everybody knows that to type "©" you have to press compose o and 
c... 

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