http://www.purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/keysyms.htm
describes what key symbol values can be used with bind (any other commands?).
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[[What is a key symbol?]]

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Open a wish session and type
  bind . <KeyPress> {puts %K}
Then press any key or key combination to learn the keysym for your desired key binding
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Is there any way to use accented characters (as used in many European languages) in bindings?  I want, for example, Alt-e' (meant to be Alt pressed with an accented e) to be bound to a command. -- [CLN] 2001-06-11

[Peter Lewerin] 2001-06-30:

 bind . <Alt-Key-eacute> ...

would seem to do what you want, but possibly only if you actually have a � key to press.  At least for me, characters composed with dead keys don't fire the bindings, but character keys (e.g. adiaeresis on my keyboard) do.
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[[Distinguish keysyms and key codes.]]
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[Mo] included in the Tk test suite
keypress-pertinent code.
He advises, "See the following procs in tk/tests/event.test:

_init_keypress_lookup
_keypress_lookup
_keypress
_keypress_string

With these commands you can do the following:

    _keypress_string $w HELLO\n

This will generate a keypress for each letter followed by an
event for the return key."
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''jfron'' wrote in [the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup]:
 proc tryGetChar {k} {
   set c [string index [.t get 1.0 end] 0]
   set ::kmap($c) $k
   set ::revmap($k) $c
   .t delete 1.0 end
 }

 text .t
 # pack .t
 bind .t <Key> {tryGetChar %k}
 for {set i 0} {$i<$256} {incr i} {
   focus -force .t
   event generate .t <KeyPress> -keycode $i
 }
 destroy .t

Viola!  now just [[array get ::kmap $char]] to find the keycode for a char.
Simple, dirty, and able to regenerate itself inline no matter what 
platform you've got.  If it gets caught by the text widget's default 
bindings and doesn't display anything, well, I probably don't want to 
know about it anyhow.

There's got to be an easier way.  Is there really no standard mapping of keycodes?












































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