Right ALT Not supported (bad for International Keyboards)

[bnferguson]

Atom doesn't handle keyboards with Right Alt (i.e. AltGr). This is a very basic mistake. I have a Hungarian keyboard layout, I can only write specific keys like "|" (pipe) by pressing Right Alt (AltGr) and then W, which Atom doesn't recognize and treat like Alt-W or something?
The point is there are some layouts like greek, hungarian, czech with special keys, which an EDITOR should handle the right way!!
E.g. I can't write CTRL-", because it writes the number "2" instead. I think this key might be interpreted like CTRL-ALT sequence, but not sure either.
Anyway, without it, it's just not an editor.
Like Windows Media player; you can't pause a movie with it hitting space bar...

From: support/9f98abca9f4a11e3955c6445541b1a76

[bnferguson]

Came up again here with a Swiss keyboard: support/dc36f40c9f9411e39d48d431a1f89cb9

I use a swiss-french QWERTZ keyboard. The key combinaison for @ is alt-g. When I press alt-g no char appeare. It's also truth in this bug form.

[aengelke]

On a German keyboard, you can't type @ (this is ctrl-alt-q in the keybinding resolver, and mapped to autoflow:reflow-selection) and \ (this is ctrl-alt-[ in the keybinding resolver, and mapped to editor:fold-current-row).

[enzy]

Same for Czech qwerty keyboard, for ex. altgr+shift+ú should insert { but instead trigger action editor:fold-all (which you can imagine is very frustrating).

I tried to override this behavior in keymap file but it didn't help.

[batjko]

Same here on a British keyboard, Windows 8.1. build 0.102.

[sdebruyn]

This seems to affect keys that are bound to an action in Atom and which need CTRL+ALT or AltGr for the key itself.

For example: on azerty you need to press AltGr + é to get an @. There you need AltGr for the key itself. Now if something was bound to CTRL+ALT+@ or CTRL+ALT+é, this problem would appear when you'd want to type @.

[abduelhamit]

I don't know if it helps:
When I press Alt Gr on my German keyboard, the Key Binding Resolver says I pressed ctrl-alt.
It would be more useful if it gets processed as alt only.

[probablycorey]

Closing in favor of atom/atom-keymap#35

[c0b41]

Turkish keyboard also has the same problem

[onokumus]

@ayhankuru
Eğer windows kullanıyorsanız;
c:\Users\ayhan\.atom\keymap.cson dosyasına

'.workspace':
   'alt-q': 'core:@'

satırlarını ekleyebilirsiniz. Denedim çalışıyor.

[c0b41]

@onokumus keymap.cson dosyasında değişiklik yaptım ama olmadı, autoflow modulü içerisinde app\node_modules\autoflow\keymaps.json dosyasında değişlik yaptım şuan için sorun kalmadı

".platform-win32 .editor":{
    "altgr-q": "core:@"
  }

[jakakordez]

Same with Slovenian keyboard using Windows 8.1 and Atom 0.141.0. I have problems with keys:

• • AltGr + .

• \ - AltGr + Q
• [ - AltGr + F

], <, @, {, }, | are working fine.

[PaulEcoffet]

Same with bepo keyboard, the french dvorak keyboard, the backslash () is not working (altgr + à)

[hadronized]

Yeah, same with bépo \ :( Is there any fix to change that? I need \ for Haskell hacking :(

[ccoenen]

This ticket has been closed a few weeks back, i think it won't get any attention anymore. Please focus your attention on this issue here: atom/atom-keymap#35

[majoess]

how do this: \ ???

[be-meyer]

I can confirm that Alt Gr + ßwhich should be \ does not work on windows 10 vers. 1.0.19

[winstliu]

Please keep the discussion on atom/atom-keymap#35.