"č" character doesn't work in hints

[svenko99]

Error details

Having a character "č" (api.Hints.setCharacters('asdfghjklčweruiocm');) shows in hints to open a link, but when I press the combination where "č" is present, the link doesn't open.

SurfingKeys: 1.15.0

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL: Every URL

Context

Normal usage

[Fred-Vatin]

I confirm this.

setup

• Firefox 131.0.3, SK 1.16.1
• Vivaldi 6.9.3447.54, SK 1.17.3
• OS Win 10 pro 22H2

issue

I have a US ansi keyboard. But I use a layout that send é when pressing KeyK

Using

Hints.setCharacters("fdsjél");

will show É in hints but pressing KeyK won’t activate it as expected.

I have to use this settings to actually use KeyK:

Hints.setCharacters("fdsjkl");

But the hints will show K instead of É.

Conclusion

In other words, hints must be set using event.code instead of event.key. Why not if it is documented. It makes the keys consistant throughout different layouts. But there should be a setting to chose between using event.key or event.code to display characters in hints.

Vimium C has this settings

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Related issue with the functions forward/backward to next char in visual mode. To jump to a char, it seems it reads event.code instead of event.key. Because of that, I can not jump to é in a word by pressing k on my layout because it would jump to k.