Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-char: add cyrillic key 'numerosign' to Russian keymap

[Michael Tokarev]

16.02.2015 11:53, Gonglei wrote:

> Both "numbersign" and "numerosign" needed. Although they have the same
> keymap characters, their keysym in vnc_keysym.h are different:
> 
> static const name2keysym_t name2keysym[]={
> ...
>      { "numbersign",           0x023},
> ...
>     +{"numerosign",                    0x06b0},  /* U+2116 NUMERO SIGN */
> ...
> Please see the provenance:
>  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/keysymdef.h
> #define XK_numbersign                    0x0023  /* U+0023 NUMBER SIGN */
> #define XK_numerosign                    0x06b0  /* U+2116 NUMERO SIGN */

Oh.  That's funny.  "Number sign" is actually just a hash character - #.
While numero sign is this -- №.  So yes, okay, both are neecessary indeed.
And yes, this "numero sign" (named after french word) is used in russia.

Thanks,

/mjt