Unable to use non ASCII keys in custom input

[Oygron]

Hi,

As french user, some of my keys return non ASCII symbols, such as 'é'. When I want to customise my inputs, these keys are not accepted by KSP.

Would that be possible to correct that ?

Thanks in advance,

Edited April 15, 2023 by Oygron

[sal_vager]

Hi Oygron.

You could force KSP to use the Posix standard for input by starting the game from the terminal or a shell script with "LC_ALL=C ./KSP.x86" or "LC_ALL=C ./KSP.x86_64", this should cause your 'é' to be changed to 'e' and be accepted by the game.

[Oygron]

Hi Oygron.

You could force KSP to use the Posix standard for input by starting the game from the terminal or a shell script with "LC_ALL=C ./KSP.x86" or "LC_ALL=C ./KSP.x86_64", this should cause your 'é' to be changed to 'e' and be accepted by the game.

Hi sal_vager,

Thanks for the tip. But won't that imply that the actions set for 'e' and 'é' will both be done if I press the one or the other ?

Thanks,

Oygron

[sal_vager]

It should mean that even if you press 'é', KSP will just see 'e'.

Please try it and let me know if it works.

[Oygron]

Hi,

Unfortunately, neither "LC_ALL=C ./KSP.x86_64" nor "LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./KSP.x86_64" seems to do anything (tried both in terminal and Steam). In both case, I am stuck with the default behavior, that is keypress 'é' is ignored by KSP in settings/input.

Is there a system variable / conf file to check and set?

Thanks,

Oygron

[sal_vager]

Unfortunately not, what happens if you set your system language to English before playing KSP?

[Oygron]

My system is already set to English…

[sal_vager]

Oh so it's your keyboard that has accented keys?

What is your keyboard layout set to?

[Oygron]

I use a french variant of the dvorak layout named bépo. And the problem is that with that layout I do have a lot of non ASCII keys distributed among the keyboard, and cannot find a block of 6 keys without one to set up the moves.

[sal_vager]

Can you use another layout?

[Oygron]

Yes, I can use another layout, that's what I'm doing now to be able to play this game. But that's not a great experience having to switch layout each time I launch the game and each time I quit the game.

Every other game and program I use recognise these keys (that are present on lots of layouts, the specificity of bépo is just that it is mixed with other keys in the middle of the keyboard, the keycode is not new at all). It must not be rocket science to be able to accept them, that's why I ask for it.

Edited April 15, 2023 by Oygron

[sal_vager]

Well it seems it may be rocket science to make this work, I can find no information on making KSP or other Unity3D games accept your keyboard layout in the manner you would like.

People with Azerty keyboard layouts have a similar problem in that KSP does not handle the input correctly.

There is a Linux command called loadkeys that could be used in a script to set the layout when starting KSP, and resetting it when KSP closes, though all references to it I have found refer only to the terminal and I cannot make it work here on Ubuntu.

Similarly, setxkbmap should set the keyboard for X programs, you can find some info on it here.

Neither of these options are very user friendly however.

[Oygron]

Thanks a lot for your help. I hope the devs will be able to correct that one day.