Keyboard localization package for non US-Keyboard Layouts

This is a compatibility package for atom text editor which tries to remap keycodes for your given keyboard layout.

Whats working

• Prevent default keybindings from being fired
• Keybindings in your foreign keyboard layout
• AltGr-Key (works for me on german layout)
• vim-mode keybindings
• tested on Windows and Linux

Supported Keyboard Layouts atm

• German 105-key "QWERTZ" (de_DE)
• German Neo-Layout (de_DE-neo)
• Spanish (es_ES)
• French (fr_FR)
• Belgian French (fr_BE)
• Canadian French (fr_CA)
• Polish Programmer (pl_PL)
• Danish (da_DK) - untested
• Norwegian (nb_NO) - untested
• Swedish (sv_SE) - untested
• Hungarian (hu_HU) - untested
• Romanian (ro_RO) - untested
• Slovenian (sl_SL) - untested
• Italian (it_IT)
• Portuguese (pt_PT) - untested

Feel free to send me Issues/PRs so i can add more keymaps.

Generate your own keymap

You can generate your own localized key-translation-table for your keyboard layout. Open the generator keybinding-generator\generate-keybindings.html included in this package in Chrome(other Browsers may not work) and press all keys(with and without modifiers Shift/Alt) from your keyboard who differ from the US-Layout. Copy the generated JSON-keybindings and create a Json-File. Then set the package setting UseKeyboardLayoutFromPath to your given filename(absolute path).

Todo

• add more foreign Keyboard-Layouts
• write tests
• add custom path for keymap file

This package tries to fill the gap till the following issues are fixed

• Chromium Issue 263724: KeyboardEvent does not match the latest specification
• Chromium Issue 300475: Issues with non US keyboard layout keyboard events or editing
• Chromium Issue 168971: Implement 'locale' attribute in KeyboardEvent
• Atom Issue 35: Right ALT not supported (bad for International Keyboards)
• Atom Issue 37: Foreign keyboard layouts not working

Credits

All thanks go to original author -> DavidBadura