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wrong locale for keymap definitions
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 430.39

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.80 (sub 75), branch: master, commit date: 2019-07-29 14:47, hash: rBf6cb5f54494e
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Short description of error
defining a new keymap entry uses a different locale than the actual system keyboard

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
I use the german keyboard locale (so some keys are swapped relative to american/english)

Try to define a new key mapping under preferences/keymap:
click on a key definition so that "press a key" appears.
when I hit the key which shows (on the german keyboard) "#"(hashtag), I get "/"(slash) entered instead.
if I store this and go back into the edit view, hitting "#" does not work.

if I do this with a key which has the same position on the german and english keyboard (e.g. "." or "a") it works
(of course I have to delete the other definitions for the selected key beforehand)

Event Timeline

Anton Fuhrmann (ALFVR) created this task.Nov 18 2019, 5:06 PM
Jacques Lucke (JacquesLucke) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Confirmed.Jan 8 2020, 3:25 PM
Jacques Lucke (JacquesLucke) added a subscriber: Jacques Lucke (JacquesLucke).

I can confirm that.

On a German keyboard with keyboard language set to German, I get exactly the behavior you describe. When hitting # it creates a shortcut for /. However, pressing # to trigger the shortcut does not work. I tested it with the New File operator.

On a German keyboard with keyboard language set to English, I also get \ when pressing # when setting up a shortcut. However, now the shortcut does work when pressing # later on.

Richard Antalik (ISS) closed this task as a duplicate of T68577: Missing key on Swiss keyboard variants.Jan 9 2020, 3:18 PM