Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

[Ilya Anfimov]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:37:51AM +0100, Pierre-Luc Angles wrote:
> Dear Ilya, dear all,
> 
> Thanks for your quick and nice answer. So would you recommend me to use, for
> my XKeysymDB file, 7bit characters (e.g. 1888885 to 188888F) instead of the
> last positions of allowed ones (i.e. 8bit characters 1FFFFFF5 to 1FFFFFFF)
> or would recommend other positions like private use area Unicode (for
> example F8F5 to F8FF) ?

 (Well,  I'm suspecting that I shouldn't disorient your work with
that comment about numerology and last numbers).

 I'd better take something like 0x10005001 - 0x100050FF

 Also, 8-bit was about character names -- your  fancy
i without dot  and  c with caron, better spell keysyms
with it like i_without_dot_ring_above and c_with_caron_dot_below,
and not include  unicode symbols with values over 0x7F
in keysym names.

> 
> Thanks again and sorry if my question is too "easy".
> 
> Best,
> 
> Pierre-Luc
> 
> Le 13/03/2019 ?? 09:00, Ilya Anfimov a ??crit :
> > > 
> > > Le 12/03/2019 ?? 15:16, Ilya Anfimov a ??crit :
> 
> > > i_breve_below etc. are indeed names that I have created and as you rightly
> > > wrote, I should add them to /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
> 
> >   Well, better don't. You would need to recompile at least libX11
> > after that, and support your forked binary on every
> > system you use.
> >   However, you got the simpler way below:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > > So I assume that I have to create a XKeysymDB file in /usr/share/X11/ that
> > > would be the following:
> > > 
> > > i_breve_below		:1FFFFFF5
> etc.
> > > H_circumf_below		:1FFFFFFF
> >   Yes, I think it should work. Not checked yet.
> >   I'm not sure about using 8bit characters in names though. Better
> > stick to naming it in ascii-7.
> >   Also, I personally would be a bit afraid  of  taking  specially-
> > looking  range like the last positions of allowed ones, but it is
> > definitely legal.
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