Clarification on event.KeyboardEvent attributes behaviour

[FractalWire]

Hey,

I'm currently implementing an input field, and for this I need some clarification on how the event.KeyboardEvent attributes work.
If I'm not mistaken, the value of a key input should be in sym
Which is neat because I can in theory directly do a chr(event.sym) to put it on my input field.

The thing is, it does not work nicely with meta key (shift,altgr,etc.). And instead of having 'A' when I pressshift+a, I get the value for a
First : is this the intended behaviour ?
With a program like xev (on linux), I can get the keysym value as well, and when i press shift+a the value is definitely A, not a

So, I could get around this by manually modifying the value of sym when a modifier key is pressed (that I get with mod attribute) but that would be a lot of work and there are a lot of keyboard layout out there, so the mapping I'd be doing would work for me, but not necessarily for someone with another keyboard layout.

Is there a work around for this or is it outside the scope of tcod ?

Thanks again !

[HexDecimal]

I'm currently implementing an input field

Input fields should use KeyDown events only for special inputs (return, backspace, etc,) and TextInput events for the actual text input itself. The documentation already mentions using TextInput for name entry fields.

[FractalWire]

Ah, yes.
Completely missed that one.
It looks like it is working fine with TextInput.

Thanks !