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RE: can pykeys see key presses from external keyboards?
@cvp said:
@trey said:
with an external keyboard, it does absolutely nothing that I can see.
I can't test anything, I don't have any external keyboard
You really don’t have access to a single Bluetooth keyboard, nor a “Camera connection” dongle whose USB port you can use to hook up your desktop USB keyboard? You don’t need a special iPad or iOS-compatible keyboard.
I’m speed throttled from replying to your multiple messages, so I’ll reply here:
Could you give an example, please
I did give three examples, in the words immediately after the ones you copy-pasted—“like Vim or Emacs offer, or RFC 1345 encoding”.
If you mean how would it work, in RFC1345 encoding you type some character to enter RFC1345 encoding—ampersand is common—and then you type a sequence of from one to three ASCII characters that mnemonically get you a character elsewhere in Unicode space. For instance, to type θ, you press
&h*
—all the Greek letters are the matching letter followed by asterisk, so capital Θ is typed&H*
. There are no ambiguous subsequences, so when you finish you immediately get the character and can continue typing ASCII or another sequence starting&
.It’s slow for typing full texts in other languages, but for cases like International Phonetic Alphabet, math notation, or programming languages that use non-ASCII unicode, it’s quite handy. Even things like typing characters that require the ⌥ key on Macs into ASCII-only inputs.