The 8 i k and , keys are not working

One night these keys were working fine and then the next day those keys stopped working. Nothing fell on the keyboard or anything. I reset the Pram. I am going to re calibrate the battery tonight and try to reset the SMC. I do have a service battery warning. Any ideas, issues or steps i am missing would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
IH

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It sounds like you have a break or dirty contact in the keyboard hardware, possibly some canned air is worth a shot but if that doesn't work then you could be looking at a replacement ... It's unlikely to be anything software related.
The SMC and a re-calibration might fix the 'service battery' warning (for a time) but it's also sounding like that's coming up for replacement.

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