SDL_EnableUNICODE(3)

✨ NAME ✨

• SDL_EnableUNICODE — Enable UNICODE translation

okay bestie, welcome to SDL_EnableUNICODE(3) from the SDL API Reference. this one is literally all about turning UNICODE translation on and off, and it's giving keyboard-event main character energy. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include "SDL.h"

int SDL_EnableUNICODE(int enable);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So fr fr, this function enables/disables Unicode keyboard translation.

To obtain the character codes corresponding to received keyboard events, Unicode translation must first be turned on using this function. The translation incurs a slight overhead for each keyboard event and is therefore disabled by default. For each subsequently received key down event, the unicode member of the SDL_keysym structure will then contain the corresponding character code, or zero for keysyms that do not correspond to any character code.

A value of 1 for enable enables Unicode translation; 0 disables it, and -1 leaves it unchanged (useful for querying the current translation mode).

not me being dramatic but… only key press events will be translated, not release events. periodt. 💀

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

Returns the previous translation mode (0 or 1).

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• SDL_keysym

mwah 💖 this page comes from SDL, dated Tue 11 Sep 2001, 22:59. stay iconic, bestie 🫶✨