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Bug 584

Summary: keyboard layout is not being honored
Product: SDL Reporter: Walter de Jong <walter74>
Component: eventsAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: don't know   
Hardware: PowerPC   
OS: Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel)   

Description Walter de Jong 2008-05-07 12:08:56 UTC 
I have a dvorak keyboard layout configured, but SDL behaves like it is qwerty.
I believe this problem is also present in Windows SDL.
This problem appears not be present for Linux SDL with a GNOME desktop and a dvorak keyboard layout.

I found this url that claims to solve the problem, but it doesn't:
http://listas.apesol.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2004-May/043715.html

SDL should be made to use platform-dependent keyboard routines so that it correctly uses the configured keyboard layout.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2008-05-26 05:51:04 UTC 
Can you try out SDL 1.3 PRERELEASE?
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.tar.gz

Note that the keyboard input event has changed, look at test/checkkeys.c to see how it handles the SDL_TEXTINPUT event for details.

Thanks!
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-21 01:11:37 UTC 
SDL 1.3 has been rewritten to make it much easier to solve keyboard layout issues.