Sunday, September 8, 2024

macos – Remapping a specific key in a specific input layout only


I have a MacBook with a physical EN-US keyboard that I use with EN-US and TR-Q input layouts daily. I’m quite shocked that there is no way to input a quotation mark " using just a regular keypress on a physical EN-US keyboard with the TR-Q input layout. The closest thing you can get is " using the combination Opt+Shift+ğ (Opt+Shift+[ on the US layout), and even that is a weird sideways quotation mark that appears quite funky and is simply not-gonna-work when coding/scripting.

Aside: Why is it even possible to type in that symbol when it is not possible to type in a simple quotation mark?

My question is: Is there a way to do either one of the following on macOS, without having to install a program?

  • Modify a key’s behavior only in one of the input layouts.
  • Prepare and add a custom input layout.

Aside: I’ve been using this “US keyboard, US/TRQ layout” setup for 7 years now on Windows without any issues. I’m quite surprised that the macOS maps the TR-Q input layout differently, and in a way that is quite unusable.

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