Andrettin
Hotkeys only recognize QWERTY keyboard layouts
Unfortunately, hotkeys only recognize QWERTY keyboard layouts when processing inputs.
Hehe I was about to report this, but it looks like it's done already.
I would expect hotkeys to work with QWERTZ German keyboard layouts though, no?
I'm using a French AZERTY keyboard layout, and it is really annoying in that the number keys are not directly accessible. See: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY#mediaviewer/Fichier:Clavier-Azerty.svg The number keys are accessed via the Shift modifier, i.e. pressing the "1 &" key will input a "&", and only Shift+"1 &" will give the expected "1". This peculiarity is a problem in many games which use number keys as hotkeys.
Unfortunately, this apparently isn't just restricted to numbers, but also to letters. Hopefully I'll find the source of this issue soon.
For me with AZERTY keyboards the letter hotkeys work fine, e.g. L+W to level up a fighter and improve sword wielding.
Ah, that's good news. A player had reported hotkeys not working at all with the COLEMAK layout, so I assumed it would be that way with other non-QWERTY layouts as well.
It's a bug in SDL....
https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3188 https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/pull/135
I thought that could be the case, but it seems that bug is also in SDL2? That's really unfortunate, since then a move to SDL2 wouldn't fix the issue. And it seems no one has responded to his bug report or merged the patch into SDL.
Implementing the same ugly workaround in every single game defeat the purpose of having an externaly updatable library... still you might want to consider a workaround like this one: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2/blob/AZERTY-workaround/src/backends/sdl/input.c#L393
I thought of that when I read the post, but it seems like it requires SDL2 =/ Well, at least it's a way to solve the issue when Stratagus gets ported to SDL2 :)