Type() function does not work with a french AZERTY keyboard for number typing

[lnun13]

Hi.

When running the sakuli example for windows 7, I saw following issue:
Type() function does not work with a french AZERTY keyboard for number typing:
When I use type("525"), string effectictively typed is "(é(" which correspond to the right physical keys but missing the simultaneous press on shift key.

If type("a"), it is ok. ("a" is one of the different keys between azerty and qwerty keyboards).

I look at already entered issues, the most similar one is the #154

Thanks in advance for the support you can provide to me.

Regards

[toschneck]

Hi @lnun13,
in general Sakuli supports since Version 1.0 all UTF-8 characters. What OS do you use and what version of Sakuli did you have installed? Sometimes you have to reboot your system after the installation, to ensure that everything works fine. If not work afterwords, you can provide me a screenshot of your keyboard layout settings an I will try to test this on my system ;-)
Best regards Tobi

[lnun13]

Hi Tobi.

I rebooted several time the system: after installation and also after changing default keyboard settings to check this was a "AZERTY" issue not reproduced with QWERTY" keyboard.
I Installed sakuli-v1.0.0-installer.jar.
screen shot is enclosed for keyboard settings:

I am using windows 7 professionnal SP1 (french version)

[toschneck]

Ok thanks for the screenshot, I will try to reproduce it and find a solution. You will hear from me soon ;-)

[toschneck]

I checked this issue and you're right, currently the typing works not correct on "AZERTY" keyboards, because the java.awt.event.KeyEvent mapping didn't match to that kind of keyboard. But if you wan't to type special french characters, you can change your keyboard layout on your testsystem to some QWERTY or QWERTZ layout und use the regular type function. This function will convert the special character into an UTF-8 key combination and type the correct character.

If you get the following error:

ERROR [2016-05-18 18:21:58.294] - ERROR:
CASE "demo_win7":
        STEP "Calculation":  Cannot convert character '?'. To enable UTF-8 typing support, please set under "HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Input Method" the key "EnableHexNumpad" to "1"

You have to go to your windows registry and enable the UTF-8 support under:

HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Input Method  -> EnableHexNumpad=1

Will this solution works for you?

[lnun13]

Hi.

I just started to use sakuli on my own laptop.
I do not plan to have a dedicated test station for the moment: I need to develop it first.
So you can imagine that moving to a qwerty configuration is quite annoying.
Still, I do not need special french characters like é,è;ç .. but simple standard numbers: 1,2,3, 4...
Will they work with a AZERTY configuration if I enabled UTF8 support on windows registry?
Thanks for your kind support.

[toschneck]

Unfortunately the problem is currently that the basic letter matching won't fit. So the UTF-8 support won't change anything. To fix this I have to write a special mapping for the AZERTY keyboards. I will try to do this, in the next weeks. Maybe you can use instead the paste method. This method should probably work!