SMerrony/keypadder

Suggestion: dump printable character with `--dumpkeys`

mgrojo opened this issue · 2 comments

mgrojo commented

Describe the bug
The # virtual key produced ç instead of #.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to 'Hex'
  2. Click on '#'

Expected behavior
I expected # to be input, but it produced ç.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
  • Browser Firefox
  • Keyboard distribution: Spain

Additional context

Congratulations on this useful and simple tool.

I suppose this depends on keyboard distribution.

Edit: Before submitting this issue I read the documentation, and understand this is expected behaviour, so you can directly close it, but I've thought that a possible improvement is to dump the actual printable character (when applicable) when the --dumpkeys option is used. In that way, you could predict which character will be printed while configuring your pads.

SMerrony commented

Thanks for the suggestion, but now (thanks to you) we have many non-printable application control codes etc. in the list, I don't think we want splurge them all out ;-)
I don't think we want to go down the route of adding metadata to the key codes.

mgrojo commented

I was thinking in some way to programmatically convert from the code to the character, but I've made a search and haven't found a way. Thus, I will close this issue. It's just a matter of reading the documentation and compare your layout to the US layout.

Maybe you can link in the documentation to something like this:
https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents-code/#key-alphanumeric-writing-system