XLookupString return inconsistent

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Sep 12 15:46:04 UTC 2016


On 09/12/16 08:40 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> So Control-Shift-2 maps to the NULL character because someone three decades
> ago thought it useful to emulate a text terminal popular in that decade.

And moments after clicking send, I realized this is really just hardcoding
US keyboard layout & ASCII encoding - Shift-2 is '@' and Ctrl-@ is '\0'.

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