Is it possible to have hotkeys for characters like å, ä, ö?

Thanks to eskivor for this little script. On a german layout the following special keys are mapped.

 KeyCode.Quote = ä
 KeyCode.BackQuote  = ö
 KeyCode.Semicolon = ü
 KeyCode.Slash = #
 KeyCode.Equals = +
 KeyCode.RightBracket = ´
 KeyCode.LeftBracket = ß
 The only issue happen on ^ and <  they always respond KeyCode.Backslash
 

All other work as expected.

You can find here the list of all keyboard characters recognized by Unity : https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/KeyCode.html

For special characters it can work, but you have to find first what is the equivalent key in QWERTY, for example the key "ù" in AZERTY correspond to "`" (BackQuote) in QWERTY.

To find which one it is : in the editor, in a project, you can add a script on a object of your scene and tap the key you want (å, ä, ö, etc.) it will print the QWERTY equivalent.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System;
 
 public class FindMyKeyInQwerty : MonoBehaviour
 {
     void Update ()
     {
         foreach (KeyCode keycode in Enum.GetValues (typeof (KeyCode)))
         {
             if (Input.GetKeyDown (keycode))
             {
                 Debug.Log ("Qwerty key is : " + keycode );
             }
         }
     }
 }

I'll admit that I'm not 100% on this, but I don't believe these individual characters are supported in the Unity KeyCode API, which is found here:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/KeyCode.html

However, if these keys are found on your keyboard they may be coming through as inputs either way. Basically, since all keys correlate to a number received from the keyboard (like maybe a = 1 on a QWERTY keyboard), these special characters may be coming across as a different key. AKA, a character input like ö on a different keyboard format may be input using the same KeyCode as F, so when the user presses the special character the engine recognizes an F input. You could run a check to see if this is happening and try to line up your inputs appropriately. It could take a little bit and its definitely a work around, but worth a try.

Just a thought.

~Z