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Display "Help" key correctly #283

@jmuheim

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@jmuheim

At the moment, when pressing the "Insert" key on an external USB keyboard, results in this:

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It seems to be some kind of circle symbol O, but interestingly it doesn't really allocate its space when displayed. Pressing "Insert" several times results in exactly the same (no stacking up of several key strokes).

When I press "Insert" plus immediately any other key (for example, "Space"), it looks like this:

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The following key ("Space") somehow overlaps the first ("Insert") one.

You might wonder: why bother? The "Insert" key is not available on Mac keyboards anyway!

But I'm regularly creating instructional videos for the NVDA screen reader, which runs under Windows (in my case, inside a VMware Fusion virtual machine) and uses "Insert" a lot. So it would be great to have it displayed properly, or at least not totally confused!

On Mac, the "Insert" key apparently maps to the "Help" key (on older Mac keyboards), so it would be great to have at least a proper "?" symbol displayed or something like that. Even greater would be in my use case (obviously) something like "Insert".

I asked for this a few years ago (#74), but never received an update, so I'm trying to push this with a new issue. If I can be of any help (or give a donation), please reach out.

Thank you.

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