love.keyboard.isDown does not properly detect remapped input

[underscoreevelyn]

Using certain xkb keyboard options confuses love.keyboard.isDown. With +ctrl(nocaps) and the following code,

function love.keypressed(key, scancode, repeating)
  print("pressed", key, scancode, repeating)
  print("is down", love.keyboard.isDown(key))
end

Pressing left control produces

pressed lctrl lctrl false
is down false

and pressing capslock produces

pressed lctrl capslock false
is down true

This behavior is confusing, at least to me. Considering the key parameter passed to keypressed is lctrl in both cases, I would expect isDown to return true if either virtual control key was pressed. At the very least, it should default to the state of the physical control key and not the capslock key. It's possible this is an issue in SDL, but I've never had this issue in an SDL application and I don't have the experience to check for sure.

[slime73]

It's possible this is an issue in SDL

It'd be SDL (possibly including the system's configuration of SDL) or at a lower level than SDL, I think.

Considering the key parameter passed to keypressed is lctrl in both cases, I would expect isDown to return true if either virtual control key was pressed.

I know capslock is pretty finnicky when trying to detect actual presses rather than caps state on lots of different platforms, I dunno if that applies here though.

Are you getting keyreleased events immediately after keypressed in your first example, maybe?