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fyonn t1_j67va7s wrote

Reply to comment by Comfortable_Mango_11 in Keychron ISO Q9 mystery - what can I do with this gap by Comfortable_Mango_11

Alas I’m not used to ansi, I’m used to iso. And the missing keys make it awkward to try and use a UK keycap which I want to do as I need to use the £ symbol often enough for it to be a problem.

And I know that you can access the £ symbol on the window’s international keycap but that is annoying for other reasons.

I bought an ansi Q2 and ended up replacing it with an iso board.

I do kinda wish that Mac and windows had an option for a keyboard driver where the symbol/function of every key was entirely defined by the keyboard. So I don’t need to worry about what comes up when I press shift 2, I can define it exactly on the board…

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Signaturisti t1_j6821q9 wrote

>So I don’t need to worry about what comes up when I press shift 2, I can define it exactly on the board…

QMK/VIA let you do exactly those kinds of things

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fyonn t1_j6849pb wrote

Does it? Could I use via to configure a key to be 3 normally but ! when shifted?

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fyonn t1_j68xjlh wrote

just to expand on my previous comment, as I'm now sitting at a keyboard rather than on my phone. yes, I can use QMK or via to configure what scan codes the keyboard sends to the computer, but how those scan codes are interpreted by the OS is at the mercy of the keymap. so for the UK, I configure a button as 3 and the OS decides whether shift-3 is £ or #. I'd like an option for both Mac and windows to allow me to have exactly what character or function every key does configurable from the keyboard alone, and not rely on the keymap to interpret what it thinks I mean.

I know this is a hold-over from back in the days but it feels like something we could fix.

Also, I'd want this key mode to be baked into the OS so that I can still use it on locked down work machines...

PS. incidentally I had to get # from the Mac symbol tool as I have no idea where it is mapped... or even if it is mapped... oh.. it's alt-3 apparently... again, that's a keymap thing, not what I've told the keyboard to generate.

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