As I began messing around with the new event paradigm, I noted that 
KeyUp and KeyDown events pass individual Key Codes, rather than their 
ASCII equivalents.

Is there any reason that the ASCII equivalent, when available, is not 
carried somewhere in the keyUp/Down event objects?  It would be 
convenient and, particularly for games, faster, to have that 
information be readily available without an additional lookup in some 
applications without having to process two separate events.

In the Macintosh implementation, this information is available 
beneath the scenes -- in fact, it is separately parsed out of a 
single MacOS event into two Squeak events.  I'm not asking for a 
change in the semantics -- just the convenience of having both 
keycode and ascii equivalent in the same keydown record.

Or am I missing something?