[quake3] international keyboard support (revisited)

[Daniel Lord]

Tony,
Since the application and operating system are different, the binds
will be in separate places so you are just extending a feature in a
compatible way. As long as it doesn't create incompatibilities in the
code anywhere. If people feel strongly about that, they should buy a
Mac (just kidding--no flames please!)

On 2/9/07, Tony J. White <tjw at webteam.net> wrote:
>
> https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2741
>
> Discussion of this hasn't brought up any compelling reason not to add the
> Shift-Esc toggleConsole bind (that I noticed).
>
> It seems that most of the confusion about using the '~' character on
> many international keyboards stems from SDL's recent change in "Dead Key"
> handling.  For example, I think keying Shift-Esc on a .de keyboard will
> be preferred over typing "AltGr-'+' SpaceBar" for those who know about it.
> Also, it gives an easy way to explain how to open the console in-game.
> Shift-Esc is much easier to communicate than trying to tell someone to
> type a key that you can't type in the game and then explaining to them
> that they may or may not need to type a space after it.
>
> My latest patch also adds a new section to the README called
> "SDL Keyboard Differences" which explains this and other SDL-specific
> differences.
>
> On another note, I've added Christophe's additional key support code
> to my latest patch.  This supports all the SDLK_WORLD keys as well as
> a several other keys not otherwise supported like "SCROLLLOCK", "SYSREQ",
> "WINDOWS", "F13", "F14", "F15", and a few others.  This may be
> controversial since it will allow people to set up binds with the
> SDL client that will not be compatible with the win32 ioquake3 client or
> id Quake3.  Thoughts?
>
> -Tony
>
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