Key bindings and special characters

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  1. dukyduke

    dukyduke Active Member

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    I presume it has been already discuss but my search queries were unsuccessful.

    I've a French "AZERTY" keyboard. This means that the default key bindings for units grouping are not completely working.

    Indeed, the 1...9, 0 keys are as in QWERTY keyboard above letters but it requires capslock.
    So these keys are not working for me (even with capslock activated).
    Lucky enough, I can still use the num pad on the right.

    I've tried to modify these keys by the "AZERTY" corresponding ones, ie :
    &, é, ", ', (, -, è, _, ç, à

    but it's not working too.

    Is there a way to configure binding for special characters like these ?

    Thanks
  2. Tripax

    Tripax Member

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    hi there
    We're Belgian so facing the same problem (azerty)

    The way it's playable is
    - have multiple keyboard layouts in windows
    - change to international with a keybind (windows-space for example, you can edit that so that it only happen in the current application)
    - switch to international layout as soon as the game has loaded.
    - ofcourse you'll have to remember that a is now q, z is now w and so on. now you can also use wasd for navigating the sphere (zqsd in our case)
  3. masterdigital

    masterdigital Uber Alumni

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    so it sounds like our key-binding utility library doesn't hand international keys correctly. I have an azerty keyboard and I will make sure the game works correctly with it, however... I probably won't be able to do it right away.

    I didn't know that the key-binds didn't work, so that makes our international keyboard support a more important issue. Thanks for reporting this.
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  4. Tripax

    Tripax Member

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    in fact, this was already reported on the bugtracker
    FS#2686 - Key Pane WASD and alternative Keyboard Layouts (Azerty)

    thanks for looking into it, we understand it can't happen right away, we happily work around it until it's fixed (-:
  5. Sonicus83

    Sonicus83 New Member

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    I think it is the same bug that didn't allow me to type the @ in the Ubernet-Linking.. copy&paste from notepad worked though..
  6. dukyduke

    dukyduke Active Member

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    @tripax
    Thank you for your answer.
    Happy to see that I'm not alone. The keyboard layout trick, I've already done this with success but I'd like to avoid it.

    @masterdigital
    Great to hear that you'll look for it ! Thank you.
    (And as Tripax said, we agreed that there is no hurry to fix it at the moment. We can deal with it.)

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