USB HID Device: how to send Unicode?

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I have a USB HID Device STM32CubeIDE project with the following USB HID Report Descriptor

 

 

	0x05,0x01, // Usage Page: Generic Desktop Page (0x01), page HID Usage Tables 1.4
	0x09,0x06, // Usage: Keyboard (0x06)
	0xa1,0x01, // Collection: Application
		0x05,0x07, // Usage Page: Keyboard/Keypad Page (0x07)
		0x19,0xe0, // Usage Minimum: 0xe0: kbd lctrl
		0x29,0xe7, // Usage Maximum: 0xe7: kbd rgui
		0x15,0x00, // Logical Minimum: 0
		0x25,0x01, // Logical Maximum: 1

		0x95,0x08, // Report Count: 8 // 8 keys? mod mask
		0x75,0x01, // Report Size: 1 // 1 bit each?
		0x81,0x02, // Input: Data,Var, Abs,No Wrap,Linear,Preferred State,No Null Position

		0x95,0x01, // Report Count: 1 // 1 key? pad
		0x75,0x08, // Report Size: 8 // 8 bits each?
		0x81,0x03, // Input: Const,Var, Abs,No Wrap,Linear,Preferred State,No Null Position

		0x05,0x07, // Usage Page: Kbrd/Keypad
		0x19,0x00, // Usage Minimum
		0x29,0xff, // Usage Maximum // 0x65 is the max for a boot device?
		0x15,0x00, // Logical Minimum
		0x26,0xff,0x00, // Logical Maximum // 0x65 is the max for a boot device? // 0x25: int8? 0x26: int16?

		0x95,0x06, // Report Count: 6 // 6 keys? 6 keys (6KRO)
		0x75,0x08, // Report Size: 8 // 8 bits each?
		0x81,0x00, // Input: Data,Array, Abs,No Wrap,Linear,Preferred State,No Null Position
	0xc0, // End Collection

 

 

and I can send (say) an "a" key press/release with the following USB HID Report:

 

 

uint8_t hid_report[0x08] = {0x00};

hid_report[0x00] = 0b0000000;
hid_report[0x02] = 0x04;
USBD_HID_SendReport(&hUsbDeviceFS, (uint8_t*)&hid_report,sizeof(hid_report));
HAL_Delay(50);

hid_report[0x00] = 0b0000000;
hid_report[0x02] = 0x00;
USBD_HID_SendReport(&hUsbDeviceFS, (uint8_t*)&hid_report,sizeof(hid_report));
HAL_Delay(1000);

 

 

Now the USB HID Usage Tables 1.4 document has a Usage Page dedicated to Unicode (Usage Page 0x10) that says that one can send Unicode encoded as UCS-2. But it's unclear to me how the HID Report should look like in that case.

 

So, how exactly does the HID Report look like (for one, or several) Unicode characters?

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Anyone?

[tjaekel]

Isn't UNICODE just sending two bytes for one character?

Why should it be related to the USB channel for communication?

Even, there would be a descriptor in USB Enumeration, telling the host, now all is sent as UNICODE - how do you know the FW (the USB drivers) would change into UNICODE mode (able to send uint16_t now as data word)?

Could you try by sending two bytes as UNICODE word?
I think, the USB Enumeration does not care. And if the USB driver does not support UNICODE (what I would assume), you have "emulate" UNICODE with your own code.

[Pavel A.]

Error: babble detected ))

 

[Pavel A.]

This is interesting. Have you tried to connect a device with this report descriptor to Windows or Mac (not sending any data yet)? Is it recognized at all?

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It works on Linux. I haven't tested on Windows or Mac.