[Lazarus] RE : RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ludo Brands wrote:
>> Thanks Ludo. I'm already doing a bit of custom stuff to get 
>> A+ running 
>> (arguably the largest free APL that still uses the original 
>> characters). 
>> But the question remains: once inside a Lazarus app, can I 
>> hook keycodes 
>> using a custom procedure, translate them to Unicode, and inject them 
>> into the currently-focussed edit-capable control?
>>
> 
> Lazarus uses utf8. If your system is also using utf8 you shouldn't be doing
> anything special to get these characters inside a control (apart eventually
> from the font not being able to display the special characters). If I do a
> 'setxkbmap -layout ru' on my en_GB.UTF-8 machine, I get russian characters
> everywhere, including lcl controls.

Although setxkbmap assumes that somebody with admin rights has set up 
the appropriate files: I'm fairly certain that there's not a standard 
one for APL (which is, at best, a minority interest). You can do a bit 
with xmodmap, but things rapidly start getting messy: X has been rather 
halfhearted in its embrace of Unicode.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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