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As a recovering Dvorak user, I would very much like the match-the-legends behavior, because for quite a long time I used a keymap which was not the default. At one job I had an Advantage2 that I carried around with me because the keys were internally remapped (when you pressed a key it reported the scancode for that letter on QWERTY) because of how time consuming it is to add a keyboard layout in most operating systems. Unfortunately that kind of internal remapping is mostly only found in some very expensive keyboards. There's at least one vendor that sells a USB dongle that does the same remapping to a pass-through USB keyboard for the same reason.

This problem would be infrequently encountered in the US (mostly just Dvorak and Colemak addicts) but is a lot more common in Europe due to AZERTY.




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