Keyboard: Non-standard keyboard like Rocketfish BT keyboard not passing Shift or Ctrl keys

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Any use of the left Shift key, Right shift key or Ctrl key
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to capitalize or produce special characters that are above the numeral 
keys but instead produces accented "a" (0xe1) or (0xe5) and Ctrl produces a box 
(0xe4).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using an iPad version 3.2 (7B367) jailbroken with Spirtit.

Please provide any additional information below.

Using the same keyboard with apple Bluetooth driver has no issues with any of 
the keys so this is not a keyboard issue. Rocketfish is one of the tested 
keyboards so I don't know what settings can be changed to resolve this. Any 
assistance is appreciated.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jose...@dollarphone.com on 16 Aug 2010 at 9:52

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what keyboard layout did you set in BTstack Keyboard?

CTRL is not intended to produce visible characters. CTRL-H is TAB, CTRL-A let's 
you go to the beginning of a line in terminal apps, etc. Try ALT for 
alternative characters, but they are sparsely mapped. e.g. ALT-L is @ on a 
German keyboard. 

Original comment by matthias.ringwald@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 6:44

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Keyboard is set to English (US). I believe that the Shift key should also not 
produce visibile characters yet it is being read and producing the accented "a" 
and therefore Shift-a will show as accented a-regular a but not capitalized. I 
had all the languages and none allowed the Shift to work properly... The 
Hebrew, Serbian and Korean keyboards showed some native characters but the 
other languages did not allow any special characters.

Original comment by jose...@dollarphone.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 1:58

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Any solutions for this?

Original comment by c...@ensfamily.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 6:05

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Hi. I didn't understand the problem when it showed first in August '10. After 
working on WeBe++, I understand the problem. All keyboards use a semi-standard 
for the key reports although they are free to use any format they like as long 
as they describe it in a HID descriptor. Unfortunately, BTstack Keyboard 
doesn't look at this descriptor. 

I'm working on a completely new version of the package to provide the same 
comfort as Apple's solution (which was released after BTstack Keyboard). In 
another update, I'll add the Mouse functionality and want to add a proper HID 
descriptor parser to be able to deal with all kinds of keybaord & mouse 
combinations. 

Original comment by matthias.ringwald@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 9:02

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Any update to this or status of the new build? Having the same issue with the 
zaggmate keyboard. 

Original comment by bcl...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2011 at 1:14

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Original comment by matthias.ringwald@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2011 at 10:09

• Changed title: Keyboard: Non-standard keyboard like Rocketfish BT keyboard not passing Shift or Ctrl keys

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Issue 174 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by matthias.ringwald@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2011 at 10:20

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I have the same problems with my BT1280 keyboard.
Is there any solution or further updates in the future???

Original comment by mkc...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2011 at 4:04

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Hi,

I talked to my boss about the possibility of combining bluetooth mouse and 
keyboard on iPad for remote desktop access and he seemed interested at first, 
but the no accentuation limitation and the reduced mouse speed (when combining 
both mouse and keyboard at the same time) became major problems for its use at 
the company. Is there a estimative to resolve these problems?

Thanks.

Original comment by saulo.pa...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2011 at 2:03

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i am having the same problems with my zaggmate keyboard - every time i press 
shift, this appears 'á' and when i press control 'à' this appears again. when 
i press alt 'à' this appears, when i press control 'ã' this appears. i have 
my settings set on us english. give me a break. 
when i press the left alt this appears 'æ', please remind me why i bought 
this. question mark. exclamation. ps i would have written all this in cap lock 
to emphasis madness if i could. 

Original comment by mina.s.d...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2011 at 7:16

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Hi. Please try the 1.5 update. It tries to switch the keyboard into Boot 
protocol mode, where it should behave like any other keyboard. I don't have a 
ZaggMate/Logitech for testing, so please let us know if it works now (or not).

Also, please start using http://btstack.uservoice.com for issues with my 
BTstack-based products on iOS.

Original comment by matthias.ringwald@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2012 at 7:47