I am using the X11::Protocol and Tk modules, and I want to convert any given character into its keysym name. How can I do this? There doesnt seem to be any obvious way, apart from having to generate my own hash table by hand (laborious, time consuming and error prone), i.e. 

my %char_to_keysym = (
  '&' => "ampersand",
  ' ' => "space",
  '=' => "equal",
  '+' => "plus",
  .....
);

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Reason is I want to generate some XKeyPress/Release events for any given string, but cannot find how to do a lookup on non-alphanumeric keys...

Thanks

In reply to Converting characters to keysyms by naggiman

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