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Hi!

I've been playing Rogue Robs Trains, and as a non-qwerty user, the use of physical keys has confused me a little at first : I don't know if it's a limitation of bearlibterminal, but otherwise, using character input instead of physical input for keys representing characters would be nice.

BTW, nice little game, easy to get into and quite fun! I don't know if you have plans to develop it further from the 7DRL version, but the concept is nice :-)

Recently, I accepted @anaseto's PR about using runes instead of using bearlibterminal scan codes directly. Later, I started to widen the support for runes, but it started to be a bit unconvenient (didn't work well with existing systems - and I'd like to add non-qwerty support to RAWIG as well). Also: "this means that in some keyboard layouts the WASD keys will not be in a sensible position, but at least they're where you expect".

So, why not to get both: sensible layouts and proper layout mapping? I started to work on this recently. It's a bit pain to implement (because I'm mapping every control scheme manually) and still in early stage, but it seem to work as expected. (One may want to check keyboardLayoutConfig2 branch.)

QWERTZ is based on German scheme; AZERTY - the French one.

There are still dilemmas to resolve, thought. For example, using AZERTY one need to press shift to write numbers. Therefore, I'd assume that "default key" is, for example, 'é', not '2'.
On the instructions panel, I wrote all special (ie not related to movement) commands their keys. So, 1 - switch to primary weapon, 2 - switch to secondary, etc. The question is: would it be more clear (even if both '2' and 'é' are supported), for AZERTY-user, to have 'é' as part of this string instead of '2'?

Personally, this change doesn't seem sensible for me, but I'm using QWERTY all my life, so I'd like to consult it with actual AZERTY users.