file picker doesn't recognize keyboard layout

[v-python]

I have a custom keyboard layout installed on Windows 7, but fontforge, at least in the initial file picker, seems to be ignoring that somehow, perhaps doing its own interpretation of key up/down sequences rather than obtaining the keycodes from the proper Windows APIs. This makes it rather hard to type file names, especially those using characters not on (or that I can not find on) whatever keyboard model it is using.

[adrientetar]

Dupe of #1729.

[adrientetar]

Generally speaking, FontForge was originally written on top of the X Window toolkit (UNIX) so as you point out, it's not a native Windows app. It uses the xkb utility for keyboard handling for instance, and hwile it's configurable via launch flags there's (seemingly) no detection feature.

See #1729 for the details.