have the shifted keys in the layout designer

[alphaho]

Hope can have the shifted keys in the layout designer, like ( ) &, so we can press one key to send the parentheses to the system.

[sizur]

This please!

[yurikhan]

This will not work for users who use national layouts.

E.g. suppose you bind two keys to emulate Shift+9 and Shift+0. They will generate ( and ) if pressed while the US layout is active, but when you switch to Bulgarian, they generate _ and №.

The core of this feature request is the desire to enter arbitrary Unicode characters without going through the OS-level keyboard layout; see #5.

[sizur]

Valid argument. However why settling with the lowest common denominator? If it cannot work for all cases it should not work at all?

Some people move between systems, VMs, VNCs, and the like a lot. Configuring OS remaps sometimes is not an option, unfortunately. It would be awesome if the firmware can handle that when needed.

[yurikhan]

My cutoff line for features that I’m willing to implement is that I must be able to say, “it works for me”. I am a Linux user, with two OS-level layouts (one for English/Latin, the other for Russian/Cyrillic), both of which are heavily customized from the defaults. If it’s not generic enough to work on my bizarre configuration, I won’t be sufficiently motivated to work on it.

That said, I recognize that there is a vast subset of users who use only Windows and only US English QWERTY layout. These will be served by the macro engine, as long as they are willing to put in some effort to configure their own macros.

[sizur]

I also use Russian, although transliterated. I am willing to let Fn+(querty)j produce something unexpected in Russian mode but give me a simple ( when I code in English.

[sizur]

If Macro Engine in the firmware will enable me to make that happen, I'm happy. :)

[alphaho]

I agree that marco engine is a better solution!!

[gysi]

Adding an shift modifier would be neat. you could then send just some unicode chars (from the UNICODE PAGE (0x10)) when pressing shift