Convert UTF-8 character to xmodmap name

Question

Is there a way of converting a UTF-8 character to its corresponding xmodmap name?

So if the input is ” the output would be rightdoublequotemark.

Looks like the info you want is in here: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/data/unicode.txt — slm, Apr 06 '14 at 05:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 27 '14 at 04:15

man xmodmap says:

The list of keysym names may be found in the header file <X11/keysymdef.h> (without the XK_ prefix), supplemented by the keysym database /usr/local/share/X11/XKeysymDB.

For your example, the corresponding line of X11/keysymdef.h is:

 #define XK_rightdoublequotemark          0x0ad3  /* U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK */

Recent versions of this file has comment header that describes how to parse it reliably using Perl/etc. for any needed machine action, including making reverse table.

Convert UTF-8 character to xmodmap name

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