GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

[Samuel Thibault]

wettstein509 at solnet.ch, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 19:59:22 +0100, a écrit :
> There is some braille support in the compose mechanism in libX11, see
> directory modules/im/ximcp.  I do not know whether and how it works,
> though.

That is what I described, yues.

> > 1. it is very simple, uses only six keys of the keyboard.
> 
> It appears the implementation in libX11 uses eight keys, each one
> corresponds to one bit.  The input character is obtained by ORing the
> bits of the pressed keys.  Maybe despite the name, it is something
> different?

No, it is really the same (and actually I made 10 dots being defined, as
some braille keyboards have 10 of them!)

Samuel