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You have asked an important question: how do you detect the keyboard layout (in Javascript) when using KeyUp/KeyDown events? A regular press event will provide the charCode but the press/release versions do not.

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You could ask if the user wants to use the standard, or custom and then capture the keycodes for up/down etc.

Quite interesting. I suppose you could ask the user to press "z" and see which KeyUp event fires.

Would love to hear a more elegant solution.

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