[SDL] SDL 1.3: UTF-8 vs UTF-16 vs UTF-32?

[Christian Walther]

David Olofson wrote:
> So, "physical position" key codes would be a very nice thing to have 
> in some situation, but it should be noted that applications that use 
> them should never assume anything about what might be printed on the 
> keycaps. No talking about pressing this or that key, without actually 
> checking what's supposed to be printed on it, please.

Of course. We'd absolutely need a function "const char 
*SDL_KeyDescription(SDL_scancode s)" or so that takes into account the 
OS keymap. If a game uses "physical position" codes but translates them 
to human-readable descriptions using a hard-coded table, that's just a 
bug, IMHO.

I hope such a function can be implemented on most OSes. If not, we'd 
have to resort to populating a table on-the-fly using the data from 
incoming key events, which would be a bit of a hack...

  -Christian