Unusual SDL keypress events

[tomreyn]

Taking a look at my and other peoples' verbose logs I spot a series of SDL keydown (or keypress?) events which I cannot explain. Here's some examples of series of keys which, to my understanding, are reported to have been pressed on my system (but I surely did not!):

• ^@,ctrl left,h,return,backspace,nm,F8,k,left,right,up,down,f,space,p,*,c,+,-,escape,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,g,i,b,unknown key,r,t,a,s,?,l,F5,e,/
• ^@,F11,return,?,F5,e,/
• ^@,h,return,tab,backspace,m,k,F11,return,?,F5,e,/

It would seem strange to me to find such key sequences in the verbose log if these keys have not actually been pressed. Is there another explanation to it?

[softcoder]

Can you confirm which type of keyboard all these users have? Is it the standard english QWERTY or another specific keyboard? I have a feeling some keyboards may auto send the CTRL character to SDL.

[tomreyn]

I have a Logitech Cordless EX110 keyboard, using the "generic 101 keys" keyboard driver with QWERTZ (german) layout. The other verbose.log I looked at and spotted the strange keypresses in was one of someone (unfortunately I do not exactly remember whom, possibly Uncle) from eastern europe (where, I think, non-english keyboard layouts are common) and supposedly uses a local keyboard layout there (I have no details, maybe it would be good to examine and log this during runtime, too, if possible).

Edit: Remove reference to uuu, it wasn't him whose logs I was looking at.

[tomreyn]

So I looked at the log totalnoob posted here.
If you fgrep 'pressed key'  megaglest_3.6.0.3_verbose.log you'll still end up with lots of output, much more keys pressed, and different ones, than a human player would probably do. There are repeating patterns including sequences of 1..9 in there. His game is configured to use polish language files and I assume his keyboard layout is, too.