Pressing < key in a german keyboard adds a \ instead

Prerequisites

• New issue

Description

On a german keyboard if you pres the key that normally types <, it would insert a \.

Actual behavior

Expected Behavior

I expect that it normally adds a < as it should. On a german keyboard one can type \ on a separate key already. And the english keyboard also has a separate keys for \, < and >.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Switch your keyboard to german.
2. Try to type < in the mathlive input by pressing this key.

Environment

Operating System [Windows]

Browser [Chrome,Firefox]

URL [https://mathlive.io/]

[Khazuar]

I can confirm this. I’ve got a physical German keyboard, that I usually set to English keyboard layout for programming. The situation is complex, I assume the problem is that the German keyboard has slightly different physical keys (positioning and amount) than the English one.

When I set the keyboard to English a number of keys swap their places, usually for the better (especially for programming). The weird shape of the “Enter”-key on German keyboards make the key-bindings there a little strange though compared to a physical US-keyboard. The key labeled with # and ' produces the \ (and | when holding shift) and is located about where the equivalent on a physical US keyboard would be. But then, there’s also the key labeled with <, > and | in the lower left of the keyboard that doesn’t seem to have a physical equivalence on US keyboards. On US-layout, that one will produce \ and | as well.

When I press that strange button with my keyboard set to German, Mathlive switches to command mode first and then types < for subsequent presses. Interestingly, adding

inlineShortcuts: {
  "<": "<",
},

fixes this strange behavior completely. Is the command-mode maybe triggered by the keycode or something rather then by what the current keyboard layout is producing?

[arnog]

This should now be fixed.