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@Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor adding @foone

foone , vor einem Monat

@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor people suggested that when I made my ascii binary keyboard, but it's sadly not possible with how the USB HID protocol works. You can't send arbitrary unicode, only a small group of scan codes that the PC converts into unicode later.

1000millimeter , vor einem Monat

@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor You already did that? Can you share a photo?

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@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor over on Twitter [sic] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1257164625184841729?s=19

1000millimeter , vor einem Monat

@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor Oh just 7 bit? However, I'm impressed how fast you can type on it.

foone , vor einem Monat

@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor seven bit is more than enough: keyboards rarely have more than 128 keys.

1000millimeter , vor einem Monat

@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor Do you enter ASCII Codes, i.e. seperate codes for upper and lower case, or do you have to enter two different codes (Shift + Letter) for upper case?

foone , vor einem Monat

@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor It takes ASCII, yeah. it has to translate it into letter+shift because of how PC keyboards work

1000millimeter , vor einem Monat

@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor But then (if you don't have US keyboard layout) 8 bit would make sense again to be able to use ISO 8859-1 or similar.

And if you make a proprietary keyboard driver, you could maybe do unicode as well.