Suggestion: Convert Keyboard Input Events to Characters (UTF8,...)

[sbward]

I think there should be a way to easily get the actual character associated with a keyboard key press. If I'm not mistaken, this would currently have to be implemented by the user, with something like a character mapping to a subset of VirtualKeyCode variants.

[jdm]

Related: #249

[milibopp]

I'm confused… isn't this what glutin::Event::ReceivedCharacter(char) is for?

[jdm]

Ah, yes. It doesn't have any association with the state of the key however, so it's really difficult to use for things like DOM key events that should have a displayable character regardless of pressed/released status.

[tomaka]

Closing for rust-windowing/winit#34