[SDL] how is SDL 1.3 keyboard input supposed to work?

[Bob Pendleton]

Can you explain how the new input system is supposed to work? I thought
I understood it, but now I am pretty sure I don't.

There is a new textinput event. My guess is that this is used to return
the utf-8 for a key when a text key such as "a" or "(" are pressed. Is
this correct? Are these events always sent or only when unicode input is
enabled?

There are a number of new functions for looking up the names of
characters and converting them ... can you give me a complete list of
these and how they are supposed to work? Also, what are they for?

Another thing that bothers me is that the table in SDL_keynames.h
doesn't actually contain the SDLK_* names of the keys. Why is that?

It makes sense to me that the key up/down events return only physical
key codes and textinput events return the utf-8 unicode when it is
available. But most of the rest seems like overkill to me. 

I'm sending this to the whole list for clarification. 

	Bob Pendleton