Keyboard Layout Configuration and Unicode Character Input?

[digitalgreenery]

Hi,

I have been trying to create a multi-layer and/or e-paper keyboard for years, inspired in part by the original Space Cadet keyboard and mobile phone interfaces. I even managed to get a Nemeio keyboard which seems fairly close to your project and what I wanted, but I have had no luck getting it to work on Linux as of yet.

Additionally, I looked into using QMK/Via/Vial with a compatible standard keyboard, but was having difficulty with getting Unicode characters, even within the ASCII range like ° (0x00B0), to work as it seems typically OSs and the USB keyboard prefer to use a keymap rather than arbitrary unicode inputs so I have been a bit stumped.

Getting back to my main questions:

• Keyboard Layout Creator: Are you planning to include a browser-based editor
like Vial for configuring layers and key assignments?

• Unicode Support: Will the keyboard support arbitrary Unicode characters? I have thought about three different methods that might work:
1. OS Keymap Macros: Switching between pre-configured OS layouts. (Probably the easiest, but OS/DE dependent)
2. Input Remapping Daemon: Using unique sets of function keys to signal layer changes, with
a background process remapping inputs. (The most bodged option)
3. Custom HID Driver (Probably the hardest, but most portable for the keyboard itself)

[InkboxSoftware]

I was planning on creating a local keyboard layout editor, one that uses the same graphics engine to check out how the layout would look.

As for Unicode support, I just recalled having seen some specific Unicode input devices made a few years ago, which led me to this documentation for Unicode through QMK here: https://docs.qmk.fm/features/unicode
The best place to start may be going through the documentation to see how they pull it off.

[digitalgreenery]

I had tried the UP(i, j) command in Vial, but since Vial doesn't strictly implement QMK, they probably don't support that feature. I didn't want to spend the time looking up every unicode character's codepoint to use the QMK configurator and then hoped my keyboard worked after a flash to QMK firmware either.

I found that QMK does support os detection, so it seems like it is doable. I might want to try making a simple emoji remapping on my keyboard to test that out.

[taytortots23]

Just to chime in incase you aren't on the discord, I have a fork of this and am currently working on desktop software for the keyboard

[digitalgreenery]

Just to chime in incase you aren't on the discord, I have a fork of this and am currently working on desktop software for the keyboard

Where's the link to the discord?