Bug 8225

Summary:	proposal to introduce currency accent
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Fabian Hombsch <Fabian>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	lowest	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Fabian Hombsch 2006-09-11 07:13:28 UTC

I would like to have some currency accent (I call it ||),
for example || + s -> $, || + e -> €, y -> ¥ etc.
I think a new keysym would have to be invented, I would prefer dead_currency as 
a name for it. I could make the lines for the compose map, but I don`t know how 
to tie things together neither how to make a patch.
What do you think about it?
Fabian.

Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2006-09-17 14:56:53 UTC

Interesting idea, actually. As a first approach, I would do the following: pick
one of existing dead_* keys, tried to add it to
/usr/share/X11/locale/.../Compose into a sequence and see the whole chain
working (I think it should, why would not it).

Then I'd approach xorg maintainers to add dead_currency to keysymdef.h (in xorg
maillist).

I love the whole idea, so I can do the second part if you like.

Comment 2 Fabian Hombsch 2006-09-20 12:49:07 UTC

OK I`ll try to get something out of <dead_abovering><s> etc.
(actually this would make a bunch of <multi_key> combinations easier to press)
But I have not yet understood the file structure.
Just pasting into one of the variety of Compose files didn`t work straight 
away. Maybe only one of them is active on my system. Do I have to restart the X 
server or compile something etc.?

If I succeed, I can only map these combinations on latin letters.
I don`t know for example which hebrew letter the new shequel symbol of Israel 
should be put on. (Is it the current currency, by the way?) So people would be 
needed for hebrew, arabic, and cyrillic.
Greetings, Fabian

Comment 3 Benjamin Close 2008-01-11 02:39:30 UTC

Bugzilla Upgrade Mass Bug Change

NEEDSINFO state was removed in Bugzilla 3.x, reopening any bugs previously listed as NEEDSINFO.

  - benjsc
    fd.o Wrangler

Comment 4 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-12-17 08:58:00 UTC

Fabian, any success?

Comment 5 Simos Xenitellis 2008-12-17 14:40:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Fabian, any success?
> 

dead_currency has been added to 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/x11proto/tree/keysymdef.h#n418

along with compose sequences in the en_US.UTF-8 compose file.

Comment 6 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-12-18 08:29:32 UTC

So, I guess it can be safely closed.

Comment 7 Fabian Hombsch 2008-12-20 11:34:15 UTC

I agree in closing this bug.

Comment 8 Fabian Hombsch 2008-12-20 11:38:46 UTC

Thanks for the hint concerning dead_currency, Simos Xenitellis.

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