Re: [LINUX5250] new x5250 release

[Frank Richter <frichter@xxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:

> I've just released x5250 version 0.1.8.  This release fixes several bugs
> from the previous releases and has several new features:
> 
>   * Current column/row is displayed in the bottom right of the main
>     window.
>   * 132 display can use a different font than 80 column.
>   * New user resource to control 132 column font: font132.
>   * Added missing tracefile support.
>   * A bunch of other stuff.

Thank You very much for the good work.

Nevertheless, x5250 is not usable here, because input is not
8-bit-clean. German Umlauts lead to error message "keysym adiaeresis is
not handled". The following mini-patch to key.c does part of the work,
but I've not found the other place(s), were these characters got lost:

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
       return K_FIELDPLUS;
     }
   else if (((*keysym >= XK_KP_Space) && (*keysym <= XK_KP_9))
-          || ((*keysym >= XK_space) && (*keysym <= XK_asciitilde)))
+          || ((*keysym >= XK_space) && (*keysym <= XK_ydiaeresis)))
     {
       if (strlen (buffer) > 1)
        {

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