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I'm developer from Belgium, so I'm using an AZERTY keyboard, and for some reason Apple has a reduced AZERTY keyboard compared to the QWERTY keyboard, some special charters like {} & [] The {can be made with the ⌥ key and (, but for the `[]' isn't such a key available, so is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut to those? Could be helpful since I'm a PHP developer, otherwise I'll consider to buy an QWERTY keyboard.
Thanks
QuickKeys allows you to record actions or define macros and assign them to keyboard shortcuts. I don't know if the Macintosh draws a distinction between Right Shift and Left Shift though.
If you can consider switching to the U.S layout, it's identical on Mac and Windows in terms of the positions of ASCII characters.
I don't know if there's a premade French PC layout, but you can also use Ukelele to create your own one:
/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ (the popovers shown when holding keys don't work with normal .keylayout files, and keyboard layouts in ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ can't be selected in password dialogs or the login window)To apply changes to a keylayout, you have to run sudo touch /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ (or modify the folder some other way) and log out and back in. You can disable the default French input source by editing the com.apple.HIToolbox plist.
Another option would be to use KeyRemap4MacBook:
You can customize the setting group by copying it from the source to private.xml.
Best Answer
For the Apple French or Belgian azerty layouts, [] should be at option plus shift plus ().