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Convenience macros simplifying ZMK's keymap configuration
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some international characters seem not to be available via compose mechanism #8

Open vlnn opened 1 year ago

vlnn commented 1 year ago

I'm trying to create a full layout of Ukrainian characters, creating ukrainian.dtsi similar to the ones in this repo (should be available https://github.com/vlnn/samoklava-zmk-config/blob/test-zmk-nodefree-config/zmk-nodefree-config/international_chars/ukrainian.dtsi). It mostly works -- except several, well, exceptions:

ZMK_UNICODE_PAIR(ua_a, N0, N4, N3, N0, N0, N4, N1, N0) // а/А and ZMK_UNICODE_PAIR(ua_r, N0, N4, N4, N0, N0, N4, N2, N0) // р/Р

They are just ignored on my MacBook. Any hints/ideas/proposals on how to work this through/around?

vlnn commented 1 year ago

OK, it's a known bug in macos https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253636848 . Still infuriating -- and perhaps should be mentioned in documentation (e.g. highly demanded

ZMK_UNICODE_PAIR(fr_a_grave, N0, N0, E, N0, N0, N0, C, N0) // à/À

will not work on macos devices).

Ideas for the workarounds are welcome.

urob commented 1 year ago

It sounds like this is clearly a bug on the macOS side. While very unfortunate I'm not sure if there's something that can be down from the ZMK side. Maybe there's a 3rd party tool like there is WinCompose for Windows that could be used to handle the Unicode reception instead?

Edit: regarding the two letters that aren't working, could you for now replace them with a latin A and P?

vlnn commented 1 year ago

I agree it's not ZMK or zmk-nodefree-config fault. I'll investigate and will update if I get to some level of resolution.

The problem with using latin chars A and P is that searching, autocompletion and dictionaries will be all broken -- not something I can live with!