Plover

Non us keyboards

Bug #916505 reported by Svenne Krap
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Plover
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Bug Description

I have played with Plover today (and really like it).

It has a small problem as a non-us citizen. My keyboard layout differs from the us after p and l (moving rightwards).

It would be great, if one could change the key mapping in Plover, so that one does not have to either change keyboard layouts or type wierd two or three letter combos for a single key...

Just for reference.. the DK keyboard (which I use) goes "opå" and "klæø" ....

Maybe a option i the gui to enter the three "differing" letters?

Joshua Harlan Lifton (joshua-harlan-lifton)
Changed in plover:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Mirabai Knight (mkk-stenoknight) wrote :

Unrelated to the language layout issue: I tested Plover with the US-layout Das Keyboard a year or so ago, and it didn't seem to have true n-key rollover. Presumably it does if connected via PS/2, but considering that several other USB keyboards do have complete n-key rollover, Das Keyboard is might not be the best choice for use with Plover.

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basito (baswilbers) wrote :

It seems to me that for danish, input is not a problem right?
But output is, words like don't get written as donøt.
I tried To fix this with a regexp but it did not work because my windows version uses sendkeys which uses ascii, which means that non-us chars are gonna be a problem to emulate.

So I think that for windows, Non-us keyboard layouts can only be done with a replacement for sendkeys that has unicode support. Maybe sendinput can be implemented, as is noted in the source by hesky.

Btw if You want to just finger spell these letters: " æ ø å " you can probably add something for that in the dictionairy, but the again, the keyboard emulator would - on windows - only probably ouput them with unicode support.

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