/// <summary>
/// Get a unicode char from a key, according to current keyboard mappings
/// See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5825820/how-to-capture-the-character-on-different-locale-keyboards-in-wpf-c
/// </summary>
/// <param name="key">the key to convert</param>
/// <returns>the converted char</returns>
char GetCharFromKey(Keys key)
{
char ch = ' ';
int virtualKey = (int)key;
byte[] keyboardState = new byte[256];
LowLevel.GetKeyboardState(keyboardState);
uint scanCode = LowLevel.MapVirtualKey((uint)virtualKey, LowLevel.MapType.MAPVK_VK_TO_VSC);
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(2);
int result = LowLevel.ToUnicode((uint)virtualKey, scanCode, keyboardState, stringBuilder, stringBuilder.Capacity, 0);
if (stringBuilder.Length > 0)
{
switch (result)
{
case -1:
break;
case 0:
break;
case 1:
{
ch = stringBuilder[0];
break;
}
default:
{
ch = stringBuilder[0];
break;
}
}
}
return(ch);
}
