Can't give a definitive answer, but it works fine on my Norwegian keyboard
which also has a rather different layout from the US keyboard. Unless the
key code is simply not handled, I can't imagine why you get nothing at all.

ons. 24. jul. 2019, 21.03 skrev Jens K. Loewe <jens.k.loewe@gmail.com>:

> Ahoy,
>
> I've been trying to give 9front a test ride for a while now, and I'm
> stuck with one specific problem.
>
> So I have a German keyboard layout where <, > and | are on the same
> key. However, while I have no problems with these keys, in 9front the
> key seems to be dead on all of my keyboards. I tried quite a lot of
> them, both inside QEMU on two different computers and on a dedicated
> ThinkPad. Also, using the de layout does not fix that.
>
> Is that a known problem or a configuration error?
>
>