Keyboard

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I have an AZERTY keybpard. When naming a ship, it works mostly right, but not quite. Although alphabetic characters are handled correctly, other keys are not. For instance instead of 2, I get @. I normally would have to type shift+é in order to type 2 but get @ if I do that, and get 2 without typing shift.
Here's some of the results I get instead of what I'd expect in GC2 save design screen:
1234567890[+ instead of &é"'(-è_çà)=
azertyuiop]; instead of azertyuiop^$
`\ instead of ù*
./ instead of ;: and a character I can't even find on my keyboard instead of !
I got this first line with shift on instead of numbers:
!@#$%^&*(){+ which strongly looks like qwerty.
I also don't get any carriage return.

(I hope this will render correctly in html but am not sure)

It's a bit weird since the keyboard is a mix of azerty and qwerty, and there are probably characters I'm unable to type with such a combo (the position of the m key being different on these keyboards, so there is no one to one mapping of alphanumeric characters.
I didn't try hard to get GC2 running using my other keyboard config (dvorak) so I don't know how it'd fare with that one, but I suspect it'd be even worse seeing how ',. and "<> are located there.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am unfamiliar with AZERTY keyboard layout. Is this a keyboard design for Spanish or some language that is not English? Or is this something else?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No

The one that most think of is a qwerty. Do the first 6 letters in the top left of your leters
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
LDiCesare since you are from France I have to assume it is a French keyboard that you have. My quess is that the GC2 beta, just like the GC1 beta was, is not yet set up for languages other than English. The English keyboard is the QWERTY keyboard that ForesterGC speaks of.

IIRC, the GC1 beta did not contain multilinqual support until the very last build, and since English is the language the developers know best that is the language in which they are best suited to do the early beta stages of the development of GC2 (why ovecomplicate a development endeavor?).
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is more than one English keyboard.

I use a Dvorak layout and I don't have problems with it and GC2. (It's remapped through Windows; the keyboard itself is not remapped. Perhaps that's the difference?)
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes AZERTY is French keyboard.
The weird thing is that it manages letters properly but not the other keys. If the Dvorak works, I'll probably try harder to make it work for the next beta (though I can live with the bug).
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The normal Danish qwerty keyboard does not work correctly, as I have perviousely pointed out. I have often worked with software that treated all keyboards as us-english, no matter the actual layout, so I know where to find the non-alpha keys. In the case of GC2 my keyboard does not turn into a us-english keyboard, so I have to guess where the non-alpha characters are placed.