Re: Physical keyboard events

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:55:49 +0700
> Cc: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 at 23:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > I meant the non-modifier keys.  When some OS feature redefines a key,
> > low-level events will not know that, and will still consider the key
> > labeled 'a' as 'a', even though I might have switched the keyboard to
> > another language, where the key labeled 'a' actually produces a
> > completely different character, say, 'ש'.
> 
> >From where I stand, that would be a feature, in some carefully chosen
> cases. When I’m switched to a layout where the ‘a’ key produces an ‘ф’
> character, or an ‘α’, or a ち, I’d still want Ctrl+this key to behave
> as C-a.

Yes, but you want that _only_ for keys with modifiers.  Which is not
what will happen.  Some feature...