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First a clarification, the character sets are the same for ALL ST computers,
what is different is: the characters you can produce via the keyboard (and
the key combinations used).

In article <11124@prls.UUCP> gert@prls.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg) writes:
>I compared the UK ROM's dated 851120 to my USA ROM's (when living in
>Europe in 1986). The only differences where minor (tables, not routines)
>and are listed below.
*


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.

(This also explains why some programs that are quite useful in the US, are
 absolutly hopeless on a lot of european machines)  

*(The english keyboard has got one more key than the US one, so they don't
  need the <Alternate> trick to produce the single character that's different
  (the pound sign), matter of fact I'm typing this on a real UK ST.....)


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