quicksilver/Quicksilver — pull request #1827 by skurfer (2014-04-18 18:58:31+00:00)
Title: assign a key code to events when “typing” text

Thanks to CoRD being open source, I was able to run it in a debugger and examine the keyboard behavior, which gave me some ideas that led to the answer. The answer, by the way, is right there in the comments for `CGEventKeyboardSetUnicodeString()`:

> Note that application frameworks may ignore the Unicode string in a keyboard event and do their own translation based on the virtual keycode and perceived event state.

Remote Desktop clients apparently fall into this category.

I notice that we’re only sending key **down** events, but never sending the corresponding **up** event. It seems to work anyway, but should we fix that?

Also note that Type Text still mangles certain characters in Unicode-string-ignoring apps, but that was probably always the case. I can live with it.