Yes, it works without selecting a keyboard on my machine with a french keyboard.
But perhaps Aditya has explicitly selected another keyboard than "fr" or "Auto"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863601 Title: unable to type "|" character in french keyboard. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Unable to type "|" character when using french keyboard. It is displaying "<" instead of "|" while pressing AltGr+6 from my keyboard. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1863601/+subscriptions