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Honestly don't wait on all the web Dev to fix their app. Buy yourself a programmable keyboard that tells the computer they are a "normal US layout keyboard".

Now when you press "shift+7" on your keyboard it only sends "regular US keycode for /"

As a benefit you'll maybe also realize that Azerty or Qwertz are pretty bad layout for typing French/German, and you'll come up with something better.



If you do that you'll break anything that maps based on scancodes in order to have a consisten physical locations while the key label does not matter, like games with WASD for movement and nearby keys for shortcuts.




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