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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Typing unicode
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-03-02 18:04:31
Message-ID: 200603021904.32117.thiago () kde ! org
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Luciano Montanaro wrote:
>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...

Compose, c, o is a lot more mnemonic (COpyright) :-)

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