libX11: Changes to 'master'

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 16:32:07 +0100, Pander wrote:

> On 2012-03-14 22:25, James Cloos wrote:
> > Nuts.  I thought all of those were sorted already.
> > 
> > The dstroke and Dstroke lines are arguably better than the U0110 and
> > U0111 lines.
> > 
> > Since <Multi_key> <o> <apostrophe> <a> and <A> were already there,
> > the <Multi_key> <o> <apostrophe> entry for ó will have to go.
> 
> Double nuts about the apostrophe. The <o> <apostrophe> for ó is used
> much much more then the sequences starting with <o> <apostrophe> for Ǻ
> and ǻ, for which alternative exist.
> 
> Please remove:
>   <Multi_key> <o> <apostrophe> <A> 	: "Ǻ"   U01FA # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
> A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
> and remove:
>   <Multi_key> <o> <apostrophe> <a> 	: "ǻ"   U01FB # LATIN SMALL LETTER A
> WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
> 
> because these are also available as:
>   <Multi_key> <asterisk> <apostrophe> <A> 	: "Ǻ"   U01FA # LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
> and as:
>   <Multi_key> <asterisk> <apostrophe> <a> 	: "ǻ"   U01FB # LATIN SMALL
> LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
> 
> And at the same time, restore:
>   <Multi_key> <O> <apostrophe>           : "Ó"   Oacute # LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER O WITH ACUTE
> and restore:
>   <Multi_key> <o> <apostrophe>           : "ó"   oacute # LATIN SMALL
> LETTER O WITH ACUTE
> 
> There has been many requests about mirrored availability of compose key
> sequences for often used diacritics with vowels in the past. This is

Where?

> because, depending on their your native language, people use
> diacritic+vowel or the reverse, vowel+diacritic.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply but this will prevent many irritations.
> Implementing the above mentioned change will make the overall patch from
> downstream gtk+ a success.
> 
Sorry, I don't think adding more redundant compose sequences qualifies
as a success.  Changing existing compose sequences to add different
redundant ones even less so.

Cheers,
Julien