NAME

	kbdputc, kbdq – keyboard interface to cons(3)

SYNOPSIS

	void      kbdputc(Queue *q, int c) extern    Queue *kbdq;

DESCRIPTION

This is the internal interface between cons(3) and the platform–dependent keyboard driver. Before calling any of these functions, the global variable kbdq must be initialised; cons(3) does not initialise it. This is usually done during system initialisation by the keyboard driver's kbdinit or kbdenable function , as follows: kbdq = qopen(4*1024, 0, 0, 0); qnoblock(kbdq, 1); Kbdputc puts a Unicode character c (ie, a `rune') on the given q, as a sequence of bytes in UTF–8 encoding (see utf(6)). It is up to the platform's keyboard driver to map a physical keyboard character, or a combination of them (for instance, following keyboard(6)) to a given Unicode character.

SOURCE

	/sys/src/9/*/kbd*.c

SEE ALSO

	cons(3), utf(6), qio(9)

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