Re: Physical keyboard events

[Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 at 23:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> I meant the non-modifier keys.  When some OS feature redefines a key,
> low-level events will not know that, and will still consider the key
> labeled 'a' as 'a', even though I might have switched the keyboard to
> another language, where the key labeled 'a' actually produces a
> completely different character, say, 'ש'.

From where I stand, that would be a feature, in some carefully chosen
cases. When I’m switched to a layout where the ‘a’ key produces an ‘ф’
character, or an ‘α’, or a ち, I’d still want Ctrl+this key to behave
as C-a.