Why double translation on keydown?

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh" <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> This process seems, to me, overly long and inefficient. It requires
> building fairly complex lookup tables for both vkey and Windows keycode.
> I fail to see what is gained. Why not use the following process instead:
> 
>    * An X11 event arrives
>    * Use the native keycode as the keycode.
>    * Translate the vkey as before.
>    * Send WM_(SYS)KEYDOWN as before
>    * In X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx:
>    * Use the keycode to lookup with key using XLookupString

X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx is a backend of the Win32 API ToUnicodeEx and it takes
a virtual key code. I.e. ToUnicodeEx takes a predefined input and should
return data very closely resembling what Windows does.

-- 
Dmitry.