Braille keysyms ?

[Samuel Thibault]

Daniel Stone, le Sat 11 Mar 2006 14:13:53 +0200, a écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:03:12AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > X servers are becoming a target for accessibility. However, there is
> > currently no braille keysyms yet. This would be useful for being able
> > to express braille combinations typing (unicode already has the \U2800
> > range for coding them). Since there are 256 braille combinations, 256
> > keysyms would be needed.
> > 
> > What do X lib people think about this?
> 
> You can already use Unicode symbols as keysyms -- just use 0x10028xx.

Ah, I hadn't seem that, great!

> Of course, I'm sure we could attach symbolic names to same if requested,
> but we'd need a list of symbolic names and codepoints.

Well, that would make 256 defines. If this is ok, then fine, I'll write
it.

Mmm, that said, this could very well be generated at compilation
instead. What is your preference ?

Regards,
Samuel