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by dkersten 5043 days ago
Chrome on Windows 7 64bit does what I explained above. Chromium on Arch 64bit works fine.

In windows, I made my own keyboard layout in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (so that I could switch the symbols to UK but also so I could add some dead keys to AltGr for various unicode symbols). I did "fix" the VK codes for the alphabethic characters, but I guess the symbols are still using whatever the key is assigned by default and I guess JS (at least in Chrome on Windows 7) checks the key code reported by the OS, rather than the value reported by the OS.

On Arch I use the GB colemak layout that came with the distro and I guess it sets all the key codes correctly to where all the symbols are...