No support for octal/hex escapes in .XCompose

[phantamanta44]

Octal and hexidecimal escapes are defined in the Compose docs here, but are not implemented in WinCompose. As a side note, this, combined with the lack of double-quote escape, makes it impossible for a result string to contain a double-quote character.

[greywatcher]

That explains why I was not able to get a double-quote character (") as a result of a compose sequence no matter what I tried. My default layout only contains the more correct types of quotation marks for the languages I write in.

[samhocevar]

Thanks. I implemented \123 and \x123a escape sequences. The \" escape sequence was supposed to work but I discovered a bug in the code that handled it; this is now fixed, too, and will be available in the next version.

[phantamanta44]

from what I understand, the hex escapes are of the form \0xABCD

[samhocevar]

That’s me coding before having coffee. Thanks for noticing that!

[AlanM1]

Is there a workaround to make it emit a quote character? If not, is there a plan for a patch or new release? Thanks!

[samhocevar]

You’re right, a bugfix release is long overdue. I’ll work on it this week.

[samhocevar]

Hi! You’ll be happy to know the issue is fixed in WinCompose 0.9.5! Thanks for your patience.