Re: GdkEventKey --> utf-8 ?

[Joerg Anders <jan informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Dead accent keys are in no way unique to Spanish keyboards. And then

... Why does GtkEntry work correctly?

> there is also something called compose sequences, which are popular in
> some locales. And then there are Input Methods which are popular
> especially for East Asian languages.

... yes, exactly! And I cannot know all accent keys of all keyboards
   layouts in all languages ...

> Your problem is that you expect
> too much from the low-level GDK events.

Ok, I see! But because the GtkEntry handles this correctly I'm
convinced there is some function (perhaps hidden) in Gt(d)k
which has the knowledge of all keyboards layouts in all languages.

Imagine a text editor! Ok, I could ask all Spanish, East Asian ...
users to first insert the text into a GtkEntry from where I read
it by using "gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry))".

But actually a text editor user would expect the letters appear
as soon as he/she presses a key. Thus, I have no other chance
as to use a key press handler.


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J.Anders, GERMANY, TU Chemnitz, Fakultaet fuer Informatik