Re: using utf-8 with xterm

[Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

> keyboard under XFree86 4 emit utf-8 codes? I use English locale, 
> which I want to keep, but say would like to assign the Hebrew 
> Aleph (UCS=0x5d0, utf-8 0xd7 0x90) to a particular key on the 
> keyboard. I have tried to assign both 0x5d0 and 0xd790 to the key 
> using xmodmap, but this does not work, the key will not generate 
> anything at all (or so it seems). I have also tried to use kbd_mode -
> u, but that renders my keyboard totally unusable, genearting not 
> much more than [ and ].

Try using "hebrew_aleph". (aka 0xce0)

If you want a character which there is no keysym for, add 0x01000000 to
the UCS value. xterm and a few other things support that. (and eventually
this will be standard)

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Robert Brady
robert@xxxxxxxxxx

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