That is extremely helpful. Thank you. Question: does the keyboardtype setting in the prefs have any practical effect at all? You wrote that it is helpful - but how?Ronald P. Regensburg wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 7:31 pm I think I found it.
Key Caps can be useful for visual support for which keys to use on which keyboard layout. The keyboardtype setting in the prefs file is helpful. But the keyboardtype setting does not change the behaviour.
Our assumptions and hence our instructions in the setup manuals were always wrong.
We tell users that the keycodes file is not needed for US-English and the keycodes file is needed for other languages. That worked for many but not all users.
What seems to work for all users and for all languages, and so far I found no exceptions:
If your keyboard is an ANSI keyboard, do not use the keycodes file.
If your keyboard is an ISO keyboard do use the keycodes file.
Our instructions so far did work for many users because most US-English users use a ANSI keyboard and many users of other languages use an ISO keyboard.
Also, is it possibly that kanjitalk755 might add a test for the keyboard type in the code?