Multinational Keyboard Support

[spacesvr]

There should be as little friction as possible on the end user, so auto-detecting keyboard layout would be ideal

[alex-shortt]

this might be the answer: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/code

[AlaricBaraou]

Just tried this example http://output.jsbin.com/noyudo/5
From this article https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/internationalize-your-keyboard-controls/

The main issue remains, for most case we can't detect the layout in order to display the right controls on page load.

We could update the WASD/ZQSD/... indicator when the user press whatever key that correspond to code='KeyW'

There is also this experimental Keyboard API that could allow us to detect the Keyboard layout in some browsers.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Keyboard_API

if (navigator.keyboard) {
  var keyboard = navigator.keyboard;
  keyboard.getLayoutMap()
  .then(keyboardLayoutMap => {
    var upKey = keyboardLayoutMap.get('KeyW');
    window.alert('Press ' + upKey + ' to move up.');
  });
} else {
  // Do something else.
}

[alex-shortt]

found this, seems like event.code is the right way?

Hubs-Foundation/hubs#2397
Hubs-Foundation/hubs@c544888

you probably can't explicitly detect which keyboard the user is using but just look for the keys in the right position at the very least