[Issue]: Some keys are wrong on German keylayout

[makedir]

Describe the bug

Some keys are wrong on German QWERTZ keylayout. For example the key #' does not work and gives some random other key. I use the option "force QWERTY" in Artemis. Not sure why that option needs to be enabled, when I use it, Z and Y are also flipped.

Steps to reproduce

Affected games

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Other Moonlight clients

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Moonlight adjusted settings

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Moonlight adjusted settings (please complete the following information)

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Moonlight default settings

Yes

Gamepad-related connection issue

Yes

Gamepad-related input issue

Yes

Gamepad-related streaming issue

Yes

Android version

Andrid 15

Device model

Oneplus Pad 2

Server PC OS version

Windows 11 24h2

Server PC GeForce Experience version

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Server PC Nvidia GPU driver version

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Server PC antivirus and firewall software

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Additional context

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[ClassicOldSong]

This is a complicated issue. The best way to solve this problem might be enabling force QWERTY and configure keyboard layout on your host machine, or disable custom layout on your host and disable force qwerty on the client.

[Prankalanka]

I had a similar issue using a Chromebook client and a UK keyboard where the backslash key would always output hashtag even though I already had a dedicated hashtag key. This happened with or without the 'Force QWERTY' option. I could still get backslash using right alt + the backslash key that was hashtag on Artemis and Moonlight.

This seems to be a Sunshine/Apollo (I haven't tried it on Apollo, I can't use it since I use Duo) problem. In the input section of the Sunshine web client (or the equivalent for Apollo), the 'Always Send Scancodes' option has the description: "Sending scancodes enhances compatibility with games and apps but may result in incorrect keyboard input from certain clients that aren't using a US English keyboard layout. Enable if keyboard input is not working at all in certain applications. Disable if keys on the client are generating the wrong input on the host."

Disabling it worked for me.

[ClassicOldSong]

It's not a problem of either applications. It's the complexity of software layouts that translates scan codes into key codes, then back to scan codes, then key codes again. Any part of the process that used the wrong layout would result in a massive unpredictable mismatch in key mapping which is impossible to solve.

To add to the complexity, Android/Windows/macOS/Linux all have different keycode values for a same key...

[Prankalanka]

That's nice to know, makes it cooler that these things normally work.