[Bug 53057] Tilde key is converted to "vkey 0xDE scan 63" instead of "vkey 0xDC scan 29"

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53057

--- Comment #9 from Morgan Wesström <winehq at pp.dyndns.biz> ---
(In reply to Rafał Mużyło from comment #7)
> ...
> Let's just hope this won't end up a case of the bug being in vanilla
> effectively forever and only actual change was a staging patch being turned
> ineffective.
> 

I'm afraid it actually looks that way. I've now reached 6.22 (also tested
stable 6.0.2) and I can't make the console key work in any vanilla version.
After turning to Google I found several references from other Linux/Wine users
with the same problem in various games which utilize the same console key
mechanics. The workaround was to switch to US keyboard layout. I tried it and
all the wine versions, that I had still left on my system, suddenly had a
working console with the tilde key.

So to summarize, it seems this mechanics only works with US keyboard layout on
wine-vanilla.
It works with US and Swedish keyboard layouts (and presumably others too) in
wine-staging up to and including version 7.7. From 7.8 onwards, the bahaviour
is non-functional and identical to wine-vanilla.
Needless to say, when the game is run on native Windows, keyboard layout
doesn't matter. The console key always works.

After this realization I did indeed look at the staging commits but didn't find
the particular one you linked. I thank you for that.

So it does look that this was indeed functionality added by the staging
patchset and my bug report should probably be considered invalid and instead be
labeled a missing feature request.
For now I can live with the workaround and switch to US keyboard layout when
needed. I will have a look at the patch you linked and as long as it doesn't
need tons of maintenance, I can add it as a local patch when I compile wine.

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