Re: [Fontforge-devel] Unuseful shortcuts for (at least) German keyboards

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 05:47, Philipp H. Poll wrote:
> Hello George!
> 
> > > >However, if you can tell me the keystroke sequences needed to use
> > > >special characters, and tell me the X11 keyboard state mask used by the
> > > >AltGR key then I might be able to make the german keystrokes work too.
> > > My knowledge of input techniques at the operatingsystemlevel is quite
> > > limited. In this way you're surely better advised to search yourself :-) 
> > Er, no. I have no access to a german keyboard and cannot generate that
> > information myself.
> If you tell me, how I do that, I will try my very best.
Ok, the attached program will give you that information. You compile it
with something like:
$ gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -o showmodifiers showmodifiers.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
The run it
$ ./showmodifiers
It will pop up a blank window. Move the cursor into that window. Type
something. In the xterm you started it from you will see:
        State (modifier mask) = 0x0001
        keycode = 35
        keysym = 125
        string = "}"
Type a bracket (or whatever other characters you have trouble with) and
send me the results.