PROBLEMS FOR UK KEYBOARD USERS

[guessme]

As a UK user it is difficult assigning keys using the MssConfigurator half the keys don't work and you have to keep testing which punctuation will work for the UK keyboard which is frustrating - I wanted to assign the shifted characters on the numbers onto the second layer and they don't work - needs sorting

Should have a layout for UK users would be even better:)

[benblazak]

You've run into two problems inherent in the USB HID boot keyboard spec: 1) only character codes are listed, for the OS to interpret as it will, and their names are listed with respect to the US keyboard, and 2) it is assumed to be the OSs responsibility to handle shifted characters, so separating shifted and unshifted characters at the keyboard level is quite difficult.

A lot of work has been done on (2) by a few people, who have posted on here. I'm sure there are quite a few people dealing with (1), but they tend to do it more quietly.

Sorry I can't be of more help -- but if you write a UK layout, you might share it :-). Also, if I may suggest, if you're going to write a layout in source, you might consider using the "partial-rewrite" branch, because it's easier there.