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Re: a basic question

Followup to:  <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E7846CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Maiorana, Jason" <jmaiorana@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> 
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> >For Unicode characters for which there doesn't exist a historic X11
> >keysym, use by convention 0x0100XXYY, where XXYY is the Unicode value
> of
> >the character. Xterm and many other X11 applications understand that
> >convention.
> 
> offhand, does anyone know what convention there is for
> unicode characters beyond 0xFFFF? In the older X API, there isnt
> alot of support for beyond-BMP characters.
> 

It seems that 0x01XXXXXX should work just fine, where U+XXXXXX is the
Unicode character.  Covers 24 bits, which is more than the 20.087 bits
of (post-UTF-16) Unicode.

	-hpa
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