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These can be useful in some odd cases.
There is already an implementation (+ tests) for internal use, so all
that's needed is to export them.
If xkbcommon were to provide a way to convert a Unicode codepoint to a
keysym, this could have been implemented externally as follows:
uint32_t codepoint = xkb_keysym_to_utf32(keysym);
uint32_t upper_codepoint = my_unicode_library_to_upper(codepoint);
xkb_keysym_t upper_keysym = theoretical_xkb_keysym_from_utf32(upper_codepoint);
However keysym -> codepoint is not injective so such a function is not
possible strictly speaking.
Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com>
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README.md
libxkbcommon
libxkbcommon is a keyboard keymap compiler and support library which processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB (X Keyboard Extension) specification. It also contains a module for handling Compose and dead keys.
Quick Guide
See Quick Guide.
Building
libxkbcommon is built with Meson:
meson build
ninja -C build
To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:
meson build \
-Denable-x11=false \
-Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
-Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
ninja -C build
API
While libxkbcommon's API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to expose fewer internal details to clients.
See the API Documentation.
Dataset
libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap dataset itself, other than for testing purposes. The most common dataset is xkeyboard-config, which is used by all current distributions for their X11 XKB data. More information on xkeyboard-config is available here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
The dataset for Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale data.
Relation to X11
See Compatibility notes.
Development
An extremely rudimentary homepage can be found at http://xkbcommon.org
xkbcommon is maintained in git at https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either xorg-devel@lists.x.org or wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org or through github.
Bug reports are also welcome, and may be filed either at Bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=libxkbcommon or Github https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues
The maintainers are
- Daniel Stone daniel@fooishbar.org
- Ran Benita ran234@gmail.com
Credits
Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.