Re: [RP] Proposals: Cyrillic support and pop-ups handling

[Shawn Betts]

> Actually xkb is just the XServer configuration library to handle keyboard 
> devices and not subject to ratpoison. Handling composed characters is subject 
> to Input Methods. But I don't know an implementation that is usefull or 
> widely accepted. Actually input methods are handled differently for the 
> different toolkits, we don't want to use in ratpoison's development.

There are special XKB functions that you use to decode a keyboard
event. We can probably just rip off the XKB code in emacs or another
XKB enabled program. I bet it's all pretty similar. I know there are
special programs you can run to do international input methods but I
don't know anything about them. It'd be nice to be able to have them
work with ratpoison. That may just be a matter of supporting XKB.
That'd be nice.

-Shawn