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- Subject: Re: [hatari-devel] Recent symbolic keyboard mapping change
- From: Thorsten Otto <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:00:55 +0200
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On Montag, 7. Oktober 2024 10:44:01 CEST Miro Kropáček wrote:
> so why not just take that string and let the user handle the input method by
> the OS?
Because a emulator can just stuff scancodes into the buffer that the ikbd reads from. Translation of that scancodes to ascii is done by the OS. So Hatari needs to know which scancodes to put into the buffer, and that depends on the keyboard layout the OS uses.