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Article #32397Re: ST ROM and Charset Differences: US, French, German, UK, ??
From: Simon Poole
Date: Thu, 05 May 1988 19:58
Date: Thu, 05 May 1988 19:58
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In article <254@forty2.UUCP> poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) writes: ..... >This can only be true for keyboards that do not have to generate some 7-bit >ASCII charcters via <Alternate> + <Key> (this is the case with all languages >that have a lot of none ASCII characters, example: German), there is special >code in the ROM's which hardwires these keys! On the german keyboard I have >to press <Alternate> + <a Umlaut> to get ']', there is absolutley NO way >to override this short of writing your own keyboard interrupt handler. .... I forgot to mention one nasty side effect of the additional code, <Alternate>+<Control>+<Key> doesn't produce the correct control characters, so on my ST at home I can't produce all ASCII control characters (Example: Control [) without remapping the keyboard...I don't know if Atari thinks this a feature or a bug..... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!poole Simon Poole BITNET: K538915@CZHRZU1A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ST ROM and Charset Differences: US, French, German, UK, ?? Message-ID: <262@forty2.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 19:58:01 GMT References: <671@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <11124@prls.UUCP> <254@forty2.UUCP> Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich Lines: 22 Keywords: ROM Europe USA UK