Hi again,
Since I was annoyed by the limitation that only Latin-1 characters are
supported by xte, I went a step further and I have implemented support
for non-Latin-1 characters and Multi_key (compose) sequences.
The new patch fixes the problems with the group modifier/shift mentioned
earlier and enhances the 'str' command of xte greatly in terms of
internationalization. Now, almost every string can be sent that can be
typed somehow with the current keyboard layout of the user. For example,
I can send now strings like
Ağcabədi (Region in Azerbaijan)
⅜+2*⅛=⅝
which didn't work before.
Albeit the set of available characters has been expanded significantly,
there are still some limiations, which are mentioned in the manpage of xte:
LIMITATIONS
The str command doesn't support Unicode characters with more
than two bytes. Further, character composing sequences to generate
special charactes are limited to Multi_key plus two characters. The
set of supported characters depends on the current keyboard layout.
To enable these features some mapping tables are required which were
generated from /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose and
/usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h. The generated tables are in the new files
keysym_map.h and multikey_map.h.
The new patch (replaces previous) is available at:
http://steinacher.info/temp/xautomation-1.02-special_chars_and_i18n.patch
Patched source code:
http://steinacher.info/temp/xautomation-1.02-special_chars_and_i18n_patch.tar.gz
xte binary compiled for Debian Lenny:
http://steinacher.info/temp/xte
Cheers,
Marco
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