Sorry, seems like I forgot to mention explicitly: The following excerpt from my previous message tries to differentiate between the codes produced when you press "ctrl-t" and what you get when you press the same keys while in Hebrew mode (reported results refer to this specific scenario, which was chosen as an example).
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Amit Aronovitch <[email protected]>wrote: > From a brief check, on Linux with X, with Hebrew and English > layouts, situation seems to be like that: > > 1) On the basic X level (I used xev to test) there is a "state" (binary > flags, indicate e.g. if ctrl was held, and also the "group" i.e. if we are > in Hebrew or English mode), keycode (a number, which is the same for "א" and > "t"), and an "XLookupString" which is the same (14) for both "ctrl-t" and > "ctrl-א" (but does differentiate between them if ctrl is not held). xev > also reports "keysym" which is the unicode point for "t" in both cases > (ctrl-t and ctrl-א), but is the unicode point for א if control is not > pressed. > 2) In gtk (a higher level interface), there is "gdk_keyval_name", which is > either "א" or "t" according to the current layout (language mode). Whether > or not ctrl was down is determined by the mask GDK_CONTROL_MASK in the state > of the event. > > Note that at both levels there is no specific code for "ctrl-א". Whatever > it is that emacs sees is either generated by some higher level function that > I am not aware of, or generated within emacs itself. Probably we should look > it up in the code. > >
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