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Vinyarion Dec 19, 2022 @ 12:33am
No _ underscore key exists on any vr overlay keyboard
For some reason, there is no way to type the _ underscore character in any of the overlay keyboards. Oddly enough, there are *several* other characters with multiple keys on the dedicated non-alphanumeric characters keyboard:
  • / forward slash
  • \ backslash
  • ( left parentheses
  • ) right parentheses
  • { left brace
  • } right brace
  • | pipe
  • ~ tilde

As a programmer who often debugs things in vr, this has become a severely annoying problem. While several third-party applications (such as Desktop+) add keys (like Delete, Home, arrow keys), the base keyboard remains unchanged.

This seems like a simple oversight that just never got noticed, but the frustration from having to use a physical keyboard or copy-paste a preexisting underscore character is unnecessary. One would think that all printable ASCII characters would be on the overlay keyboard, but apparently not.
Last edited by Vinyarion; Dec 19, 2022 @ 12:53pm
Date Posted: Dec 19, 2022 @ 12:33am
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