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Article #6924884-Key UK keyboards - have we been forgotten again?
From: Mike Yates
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
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Sorry if this is repeated, but it seems to me to have hit the Demon
Triangle! Perhaps its the MIME chrs.
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I have a "quaint" 386sx40/8Mb in an original XT case, 85-vintage VGA
monitor and 84 Key (AT only) IBM British keyboard with the "\ |" key at
top left, the "# ~" key top right (between "=" and Bkspce) and the "Esc"
key at top-left of the number/cursor pad.
MSDOS 6.22, WIN311 and even MSDOS 7.95 correctly assign these keys but
in Win95 there seems to be no way! It insists on making the "\ |" key
produce "` �" in British, Irish, Canadian etc. To obtain Backslashes, I
have to have both British and USA installed and a little red "En" sits
by the clock, from which I can select USA to get wrongly-labelled keys
("# ~" = "\ |", "\ |" = "` ~", "' @" = "' "", "2 "" = "2 @",
"3 �" = "3 #") and no pound-signs, or British and no backslashes. Who on
earth needs a "�" (AC hex = top left corner-piece?) anyway ??
The problem surely affects some notebook keyboards.
BTW Win95 runs beautifully on the "Quaint" PC - hardly ever falls over
like it does on a Pentium ;-) Simple VGA helps a lot. 16Mb would be even
better.
Anybody else have this problem, or know a better fix?
--
Mike Yates Frome Somerset England
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