ASCII or Unicode? (was best text editor for programming Python on a Mac)

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 6:38:19 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> A coworker of mine went through the trouble of doing the xmodmap
> equivalent with setxkbmap. Thought of interviewing him about it one day.
> 
> How-to's are really hard to come by:
> 
>    <URL: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_i
>    n_Xorg> -- no good
> 
>    <URL: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172316> -- no good
> 
>    <URL: http://michal.kosmulski.org/computing/articles/custom-keyboar
>    d-layouts-xkb.html> -- interesting but assumes root access
> 
>    <URL: https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Change_keyboard_maps> -- no
>    good

Regarding xkb:

Some good advice given to me by Yuri Khan on emacs list
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-01/msg00332.html