Keyboard shortcuts seem to be layout dependent.

[BrunoDSL]

Godot version

v3.5.stable.official [991bb6a] (Also tested with 4.0 alpha 15)

System information

Windows 10 21H2 x64

Issue description

Some editor shortcuts seem to be hard coded to a specific keyboard layout rather (US) rather than be a universal. One example of that is the shortcut to toggle the scripts panel in the built-in editor is Ctrl+\ . I have a ABNT2 keyboard layout and going for the tool tip instruction and pressing that shortcut doesn't do anything. I can only hide said panel by hitting Ctrl+]. In my layout, the ] key is where the \ key would be in an Us keyboard layout. Attempting to remap the command to what Ctrl+\ would be in my layout results in a shortcut of Ctrl+Unknown. After testing with other mappings, it gives out the keycodes for where those keys would be in the US layout.

Steps to reproduce

• Attempt to use and remap shortcuts which require accents and such using a keyboard layout different from US.

Minimal reproduction project

N/A

[Calinou]

Related to #11777.

This is because Godot doesn't use physical key inputs for editor shortcuts. There are two issues at hand:

• Editor shortcuts where it makes sense should be changed to use physical keys by default. This needs to be done on a case-by-case basis. This shouldn't apply to keys that map to a "logical" location (e.g. G to "grab"). However, this should apply to keys that often have layout compatibility issues, such as Ctrl + / to toggle commenting on lines (this is a frequent issue on AZERTY layouts). This should also apply to keys that are mapped relative to each other (such as WASD movement for 3D freelook in the editor).
• In 3.x, editor shortcuts will ignore physical keys even if you specify them by modifying the editor C++ code. This is supported in master though. However, backporting this from master would require rewriting a lot of the editor shortcut system in a backwards-incompatible way. Therefore, this can only be implemented in 4.x.