python pygame keyboard input

[Shlomo Solomon]

1 - On a virtual machine (Mageia 4) the program runs properly

2 - Python versions on Mageia and PI are 2.7.9 [GCC 4.9.2] 

3 - I tried:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 python tst.py    and
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 python tst.py  but still have the same strange
behaviour with alphabetic characters.

4 - I'm not sure what you mean by "a virtual console away from xkb
and ...". The pygame module won't run in a non-graphic environment.

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:04:09 +0200
"E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> Did you try changing it?
> It is pretty clear from those local variables that you have a nice DE
> sitting on your mageia  box customized for Hebrew/English use while
> the rPI is just a vanilla install (en_GB).
> Did you try running your python script on a virtual console away from
> xkb and all the other things aiming to help you with multiple-language
> input options?
> Did you try running it while making sure your locale variables are all
> C/en_US.utf-8?
> And again are the python versions you are using on each platform
> matching?
> 
> 2016-02-14 12:05 GMT+02:00 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>:
> > In response to E.S. Rosenberg's post, here are the locale variables
> > on my Mageia 5 and Raspberry PI. Although there are differences, I
> > don't see the problem. The main difference is that Mageia is set to
> > en_US.UTF-8 and the PI to en_GB.UTF-8.
> >
> > There are also differences in variables defining numeric, paper and
> > others, but they don't seen to be variables that would cause my text
> > input problem.
> >
> >
> > MAGEIA 5 locale
> >
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_NUMERIC=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_MONETARY=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_PAPER=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_NAME=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_ADDRESS=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_TELEPHONE=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_MEASUREMENT=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION=he_IL.UTF-8
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> > RASPBERRY PI locale
> >
> > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> > LANGUAGE=
> > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:28:52 +0200
> > "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> >> I think your question shouldn't be what distro but rather:
> >> - what version of python
> >> - what localization was set when running the program (LC_* env
> >> vars)
> >>
> >> 2016-02-14 11:17 GMT+02:00 Shlomo Solomon
> >> <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>:
> >> > Meir - thanks. What distro are you running?
> >> >
> >> > I can now add that the problem exists on my Mageia 5 and Mageia 4
> >> > boxes. But on a Raspberry PI, the program does run as expected.
> >> >
> >> > I'd appreciate if someone could test this on Mageia and let me
> >> > know if this is a Mageia problem, or maybe something wrong with
> >> > my setup.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 06:10:36 +0000
> >> > Meir Michanie <meirm at riunx.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It works for me.
> >> >> python pykey.py 113 - q 119 - w 101 - e 114 - r 116 - t 121 - y
> >> >> 116 - t 306
> >> >> - left ctrl 99 - c
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 at 01:07 Shlomo Solomon
> >> >> <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > I'm having a problem getting text input with pygame.
> >> >> > Here's a simple program and the results I'm getting. Digits
> >> >> > and special keys work but I'm getting strange results for
> >> >> > alphabet keys. Any idea what my problem is?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > import pygame
> >> >> > pygame.init()
> >> >> > pygame.display.set_mode((100, 100))
> >> >> > while True:
> >> >> >     for event in pygame.event.get():
> >> >> >         if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
> >> >> >             print event.key, "-", pygame.key.name(event.key)
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > When I hit 1, 2, F1, F2, LeftShift, PageDown, a, b the output
> >> >> > is:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > 49 - 1
> >> >> > 50 - 2
> >> >> > 282 - f1
> >> >> > 283 - f2
> >> >> > 304 - left shift
> >> >> > 281 - page down
> >> >> > 249 - world 89
> >> >> > 240 - world 80
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > Shlomo Solomon
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