comp windows x intrinsics i am having a problem with the high order bit of a character being clipped when entered in an xterm window under motif i have reprogrammed the f key to transmit a ff be character sequence by using the following line in xdefaults ctrl shift alt key f string xff string xbe n i merge in this line with xrdb merge and then create the new xterm which has the remapped f key the problem that arises is that the application which is recieving input at the time only sees a f e sequence which is ff be with the high order bit of each character being filtered or ignored when i run xev and press the f key i get the correct value showing up in the following two key events keypress event serial synthetic no window x root x subw x time root state x keycode keysym xffbe f same screen yes xlookupstring gives characters keyrelease event serial synthetic no window x root x subw x time root state x keycode keysym xffbe f same screen yes xlookupstring gives characters notice that the keysym being transmitted is correct xffbe but when i use the f key while in vi or in a program i wrote to spit back the hex values of keyboard input i only get f e does anyone know why the high order bit is being filtered and what i can do to make sure that the entire bits make it through to the final application any help is greatly appreciated please email any responses jim kavitsky kavitsky hsi com
