[SDL] Shifted keys, i.e. 'a' vs. 'A'

[Mike Austin]

Joshua Oreman wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Mike Austin <mike_ekim at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm writing a user interface in rubysdl, and things have been going along
>> pretty smoothly.  I was wondering if there is a way to get the ASCII code of an
>> aggregate key event, for example shift+'a' to get 'A'.  I know sdl is more for
>> raw input and game development, but is there a way to get this?  I don't want
>> to keep track of the shift state if I can help it, because that opens up a new
>> can of worms with alphabetic and non-alphabetic shifted values.
> 
> In C, it's
> SDL_EnableUNICODE (1);   in your init stuff
> Then use the `unicode' field in the keysym.
> I don't know how that translates to ruby, but it should be helpful :-)
> 
> -- Josh

That works, great!  But I guess the number pad is a different issue, as it 
doesn't produce unicode.  Hmmm.

Mike