Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:24:44 +0000
> > From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden
> >
> > If OTOH you wanted to find out whether the code a keypress returns under 
> > the current os layout actually corresponds to the glyph printed on the 
> > keyboard, you can't really
>
> Isn't there some API to get the key's symbol, rather than the
> character it produced?

There are only properties of the logical os keyboard layout available, 
not the physical keyboard. If I set my os keyboard layout to "US", 
there's presently no way for the computer to interrogate my keyboard to 
find out I really have "£" printed above 3 not "#" despite my os 
keyboard layout setting. It'll just have to take my word for it that 
I've got a US keyboard.  Keyboards just don't say "I am physically 
british layout" down the wire to the computer.  They easily could and 
probably should, but don't.