Smart keyboard internalization for IDEA

Question

When I start IntelliJ IDEA, that message comes up, but I couldn't find any information about that feature and how it could help me.

Enable smart keyboard internalization for IDEA.: We have found out that you are using a non-english keyboard layout. You can enable smart layout support for German language.You can change this option in the settings of IDEA more...

Answer 1

This dialog has been introduced on Github as fix for IDEA-63779. It fixes certain keyboard shortcut clashes with non-english keyboard layouts. Cited from IntelliJ support:

This option enables support for certain hotkeys with "de", "fr", "it" and "uk" layouts. Without it some combinations will not work (like AltGr+7 to type "[" with German keyboard).

There are corresponding Linux and Windows issues as well.