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Changing Keyboard Layouts

Copied from Neradoc/Circuitpython_Keyboard_Layouts

How to use one of these layouts with the pico-ducky repository.

Go to the latest release page, look if your language is in the list.

If your language/layout is in the bundle

Download the py zip, named circuitpython-keyboard-layouts-py-XXXXXXXX.zip

NOTE: You can use the mpy version targetting the version of Circuitpython that is on the device, but on Raspberry Pi Pico you don't need it - they only reduce file size and memory use on load, which the pico has plenty of.

If your language/layout is not in the bundle

Try the online generator, it should get you a zip file with the bundles for yout language

https://www.neradoc.me/layouts/

Now you have a zip file

Find your language/layout in the lib directory

For a language LANG, copy the following files from the zip's lib folder to the lib directory of the board.
DO NOT modify the adafruit_hid directory. Your files go directly in lib.
DO NOT change the names or extensions of the files. Just pick the right ones.
Replace LANG with the letters for your language of choice.

• keyboard_layout.py
• keyboard_layout_win_LANG.py
• keycode_win_LANG.py

Don't forget to get the adafruit_hid library.

This is what it should look like if your language is French for example.

Modify the pico-ducky code to use your language file:

At the start of the file comment out these lines:

from adafruit_hid.keyboard_layout_us import KeyboardLayoutUS as KeyboardLayout
from adafruit_hid.keycode import Keycode

Uncomment these lines:
Replace LANG with the letters for your language of choice. The name must match the file (without the py or mpy extension).

from keyboard_layout_win_LANG import KeyboardLayout
from keycode_win_LANG import Keycode