Re: [pygame] BUG: "/" key won't work with brazilian ABNT 2 keyboard

[Kamilche <kamilche@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Maupin wrote:
> Not sure if this is connected, but when I was working on a Pygame 
> project with text input, it didn't detect my Japanese keyboard.  It 
> seemed to treat it like a standard U.S. keyboard.  For example, if I 
> pressed SHIFT-2, I got an @ instead of the correct ".
>
> I was using Windows and the OS correctly mapped the keyboard, typing in 
> IDLE worked as expected, it was only my Pygame program that seemed to be 
> using a different keymap.  Since non-alphanumeric keys weren't that 
> important, I didn't investigate and just hacked around it...
I remember some complexities when dealing with keystrokes back when I 
was programming native Windows 95 apps. You can use virtual keycodes to 
trap stuff, but it was sometimes incorrect - there was a translating 
routine you had to run it through to get the 'real' keycode. Maybe 
Pygame isn't using MapVirtualKey?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646306.aspx