Let Us Put Extra Characters Into Wootility!

[frank narwhal]

I personally type a lot, and one thing I'd love to be able to use with the 3 whole function layers Wootility gives me is to put in things like letters with accents, such as é.
I looked around and couldn't personally find anything that would let me type in even common characters such as that.

That's why I suggest, just so it doesn't happen to anyone else, that you can put in any character into your keyboard database.
Letters with accents, symbols, and even ascii characters would be welcome!

I'd see this opening up tons of options for everyone, such as not even needing to remember what alt+numpad combinations to type in your favorite characters.

Please consider this! It'd help me out so much, and doubtless it'd help others as well!

[celest swift]

Let me have an emoji only keyboard

[hybrid remnant]

its not that simple sadly. What we let you remap is scancodes. Thats basically the internal id of each key. windows/linux/macos takes those and translates them to a printed character.

Now windows, linux and macos all let you type special characters but they all do it their own way. If we just look at windows for example you have alt codes, and only with a registry tweak unicode alt codes. So we could let you remap any character with alt codes but if you unplug it to use a different pc with it or just install a new version of windows or reinstall windows it might break and not work without some initial setup on the windows side again.

Keyboards dont send characters to the pc is the simple reality. its to lower cost of production as a single keyboard can be used in any country with any language of operating system and keyboard layout selected in the operating system. This is why windows/linux/macos even want to know what keyboard language you are using during the installation process so they can use the right keymap to convert to the characters printed on your keycaps and not some other characters.