Keysyms

Enumerations
enum	xkb_keysym_flags {   XKB_KEYSYM_NO_FLAGS = 0,   XKB_KEYSYM_CASE_INSENSITIVE = (1 << 0) }

Functions
int	xkb_keysym_get_name (xkb_keysym_t keysym, char *buffer, size_t size)
xkb_keysym_t	xkb_keysym_from_name (const char *name, enum xkb_keysym_flags flags)
int	xkb_keysym_to_utf8 (xkb_keysym_t keysym, char *buffer, size_t size)
uint32_t	xkb_keysym_to_utf32 (xkb_keysym_t keysym)

Detailed Description

Utility functions related to keysyms.

Keysym Transformations

Keysym translation is subject to several "keysym transformations", as described in the XKB specification.These are:

• Capitalization transformation. If the Caps Lock modifier is active and was not consumed by the translation process, a single keysym is transformed to its upper-case form (if applicable). Similarly, the UTF-8/UTF-32 string produced is capitalized.

  This is described in: http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Lock_Modifier

• Control transformation. If the Control modifier is active and was not consumed by the translation process, the string produced is transformed to its matching ASCII control character (if applicable). Keysyms are not affected.

  This is described in: http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Control_Modifier

Each relevant function discusses which transformations it performs.These transformations are not applicable when a key produces multiple keysyms.

Enumeration Type Documentation

enum xkb_keysym_flags

Flags for xkb_keysym_from_name().

Enumerator
XKB_KEYSYM_NO_FLAGS	Do not apply any flags.
XKB_KEYSYM_CASE_INSENSITIVE	Find keysym by case-insensitive search.

Function Documentation

int xkb_keysym_get_name	(	xkb_keysym_t	keysym,
		char *	buffer,
		size_t	size
	)

Get the name of a keysym.

For a description of how keysyms are named, see xkb_keysym_t.

Parameters

[in]	keysym	The keysym.
[out]	buffer	A string buffer to write the name into.
[in]	size	Size of the buffer.

Warning

If the buffer passed is too small, the string is truncated (though still NUL-terminated); a size of at least 64 bytes is recommended.

Returns

The number of bytes in the name, excluding the NUL byte. If the keysym is invalid, returns -1.

You may check if truncation has occurred by comparing the return value with the length of buffer, similarly to the snprintf(3) function.

See also

xkb_keysym_t

xkb_keysym_t xkb_keysym_from_name	(	const char *	name,
		enum xkb_keysym_flags	flags
	)

Get a keysym from its name.

Parameters

name	The name of a keysym. See remarks in xkb_keysym_get_name(); this function will accept any name returned by that function.
flags	A set of flags controlling how the search is done. If invalid flags are passed, this will fail with XKB_KEY_NoSymbol.

If you use the XKB_KEYSYM_CASE_INSENSITIVE flag and two keysym names differ only by case, then the lower-case keysym is returned. For instance, for KEY_a and KEY_A, this function would return KEY_a for the case-insensitive search. If this functionality is needed, it is recommended to first call this function without this flag; and if that fails, only then to try with this flag, while possibly warning the user he had misspelled the name, and might get wrong results.

Returns

The keysym. If the name is invalid, returns XKB_KEY_NoSymbol.

See also

xkb_keysym_t

int xkb_keysym_to_utf8	(	xkb_keysym_t	keysym,
		char *	buffer,
		size_t	size
	)

Get the Unicode/UTF-8 representation of a keysym.

Parameters

[in]	keysym	The keysym.
[out]	buffer	A buffer to write the UTF-8 string into.
[in]	size	The size of buffer. Must be at least 7.

Returns

The number of bytes written to the buffer (including the terminating byte). If the keysym does not have a Unicode representation, returns 0. If the buffer is too small, returns -1.

This function does not perform any Keysym Transformations. Therefore, prefer to use xkb_state_key_get_utf8() if possible.

See also

xkb_state_key_get_utf8()

uint32_t xkb_keysym_to_utf32

(

xkb_keysym_t

keysym

)

Get the Unicode/UTF-32 representation of a keysym.

Returns

The Unicode/UTF-32 representation of keysym, which is also compatible with UCS-4. If the keysym does not have a Unicode representation, returns 0.

This function does not perform any Keysym Transformations. Therefore, prefer to use xkb_state_key_get_utf32() if possible.

See also

xkb_state_key_get_utf32()