Remapped hotkeys behave strange in other locales
Posted: 21 Nov 2017, 21:08
When the keyboard locale is switched, it leads to some confusion for the user that the changed keys also affect control sequences, such as ^z which will act like ^w on a French keyboard layout. I thought to solve this with the following code:
This produces the following strange behaviors:
I found nothing about this behavior under Remapping Keys and Buttons. Even though the different cases have different results, I hope that if we find the reason for one strange behavior we may also learn how to address the others.
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; Some standard settings
#NoEnv
#Warn
SendMode Input
#SingleInstance force
; Remapping of some keys:
^SC002::^1 ; 1
^SC032::^m ; en: m fr: ,
^SC033::^, ; en: , fr: ;
^SC027::^; ; en: ; fr: m de: รถ
; Some control actions for testing:
^1::msgbox 0, , little one, 1
+^1::msgbox 0, , Big One, 1
^m::msgbox 0, , mineur, 1
+^m::msgbox 0, , Majeur, 1
^,::msgbox 0, , comma, 1
+^,::msgbox 0, , Less Than, 1
^;::msgbox 0, , semicolon, 1
+^;::msgbox 0, , Whole Colon, 1- With French keyboard layout, ^SC002 (the number 1) gives the message "Big One", even when no Shift is pressed.
- With French or Greek keyboard layout, ^SC027 (the key to the right of L) produces nothing.
- With German keyboard layout, ^SC027 (the key to the right of L) produces "Less Than", even when no Shift is pressed.
- With German keyboard layout, ^SC033 (the comma) produces nothing.
- With Greek keyboard layout, ^SC032 (the M) writes a Latin "m", regardless whether Shift is pressed.
I found nothing about this behavior under Remapping Keys and Buttons. Even though the different cases have different results, I hope that if we find the reason for one strange behavior we may also learn how to address the others.