Non US keyboards

SDL Development
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where dies sdl stand when it comes to non US keyboards? (specifically
french, some guy emailed me asking for me add support for em (email
quoted bellow)

Hello.
I’m french and so I got a FR keyboard but I can’t
configure keys to change weapons (1234… which are &?"’…)
Can you port lsdldoom to the french ketboard please.
Bye.

We just fixed a bug in Heretic II which turned out to be a general problem
in the Quake engine up until Quake III. The input was being handled case
sensitively, instead of looking at the raw keyboard keysyms.

Instead of passing in the unicode values (like ?), pass the raw SDL keysyms
which are fairly consistent across keyboards. Of course if you want text
input, then use the unicode values which are properly mapped on non-US
keyboards.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

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where dies sdl stand when it comes to non US keyboards? (specifically
french, some guy emailed me asking for me add support for em (email
quoted bellow)> Hello.

I’m french and so I got a FR keyboard but I can’t
configure keys to change weapons (1234… which are &?"’…)
Can you port lsdldoom to the french ketboard please.
Bye.

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Jess wrote:

where dies sdl stand when it comes to non US keyboards? (specifically
french, some guy emailed me asking for me add support for em (email
quoted bellow)

Hello.
I’m french and so I got a FR keyboard but I can’t
configure keys to change weapons (1234… which are &?"’…)
Can you port lsdldoom to the french ketboard please.
Bye.

I have a french keyboard also, and it works !!!
Actually, when the game initialises, it can not detect the 1,2,3… keys
of cours, since they are &?"… But if you go in the options and
customize all that, it works fine.
I am actually trying to use this trick in legacy doom, which makes a
direct access via X to the keyboard, and which can’t make any
distinction between the 2 key and… the left arrow !!!

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Thanks!!!
ill let him know that he just needs to customize, i figured he had tried
but it didnt work with those keys… oh well i guess i need to stop
asuming.

Emmanuel Anne wrote:

I have a french keyboard also, and it works !!!
Actually, when the game initialises, it can not detect the 1,2,3… keys
of cours, since they are &?"… But if you go in the options and
customize all that, it works fine.
I am actually trying to use this trick in legacy doom, which makes a
direct access via X to the keyboard, and which can’t make any
distinction between the 2 key and… the left arrow !!!

why ya still trying? isnt my doom good enough for ya :slight_smile:

Thanks again,
        Jess