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From: ECO8941@ecostat.aau.dk (Povl H. Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Keyboard layout
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Date: 14 Jan 91 22:23:02 GMT
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I am using MacMINIX on a machine with a foreign (danish) keyboard, and I 
have some problems with the 8 bit national/accented characters.

Before trying to make support for these I would like to know if there is
any standard for mapping special characters into the ASCII table. I would
also like to know if MINIX in general is 8 bit character compatible.

If there is no standard 8 bit mapping, then I will suggest that it should
be implemented in some future version (1.6 or 1.7 ?), and I will also
suggest that the mapping of these characters follow some common standard
like the 8 bit ISO LATIN character set. Even my calculator (HP48sx) does
so.

Povl H. Pedersen
eco8941@ecostat.aau.dk