From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Unicode events? Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:42:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20080207224206.GB4404@implementation> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.33]:19518 "EHLO queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755435AbYBGWpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:45:05 -0500 Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080207224354.WOGN3337.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:43:54 +0000 Received: from implementation.famille.thibault.fr ([82.21.96.230]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080207224322.VMQO17393.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@implementation.famille.thibault.fr> for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:43:22 +0000 Received: from samy by implementation.famille.thibault.fr with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JNFRW-0001Ps-BV for linux-input@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:42:06 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hello, Some braille devices may be used as input devices, and some of them don't have a PC-like keyboard, but a braille keyboard: when pressing dot 1, 'a' should be output. Currently, there is no way to do this with the input layer: if we generate KEY_A, then that will be right for qwerty keyboards, but not for non-qwerty keyboards. Then I'm wondering: shouldn't we add a unicode event type, which will just hold the unicode character that should happen? Samuel