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Bug 4927 - SDL_SendKeyboardText skips '\r' and '\n' to be reported as text input.
Summary: SDL_SendKeyboardText skips '\r' and '\n' to be reported as text input.
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: events (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.10
Hardware: x86 Windows 10
: P2 normal
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2020-01-04 16:10 UTC by ongamex
Modified: 2020-01-04 17:51 UTC (History)
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Description ongamex 2020-01-04 16:10:08 UTC 
SDL_SendKeyboardText skips '\r' and '\n' to be reported as text input.

This happens because:
int SDL_SendKeyboardText(const char *text) {
 // ....
/* Don't post text events for unprintable characters */
if ((unsigned char)*text < ' ' || *text == 127) { // <---- HERE
    return 0;
}

The comment however doesn't describe why we need to do that.
Is is because of some specific platform now reporting it?
WINAPI reports these with WM_CHAR.

I need those events as I'm writing a text editor and I need these in text in some form.

Is there a workaround? Can this if be removed or better documented?
Comment 1 Alex Szpakowski 2020-01-04 17:51:43 UTC 
Can your code use SDL_KEYDOWN events for those? That approach has worked well for me in the past.