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From: kaukasoi@finsun.csc.FI (Petri Kaukasoina)
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Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
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Date: 18 Jun 91 06:22:00 GMT
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w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) wrote:
>By the way, I haven't received any sample text and/or exact
>instructions on how to configure a PC in the USA to allow authors to
>*see* what 8th bit users need.  Instead, I've received messages saying
>that I should look in the MS-DOS manual and figure it out for myself.
>Can you blame authors for ignoring answers like that?

How to change keyboard from default US to a foreign keyboard:
For example, give this command for a Finnish keyboard:
KEYB SU,437,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS (or the path where your dos files are)
Now try the keys between L and Enter. You get O and A with two dots.
With Shift you get capitals as usual.

There are special dead keys. They are keys that do not give
any character alone. Try to find them. In my keyboard two dots and
caret (the same key, one without shift and the other with shift)
are two keys to the right from P. And accent grave and accent acute
are two keys to the right from zero. If you press first the dead key
that gives an accent grave and then the letter o, you get an accented o!

The number 437 is the default United States code page. It works
for most countries and it is the only one which works with a Hercules
monochrome display. For some countries 437 is not enough. Consult
your MS-DOS manual (e.g. search for code pages in the index).

SU is the code for Finnish keyboard. Instead of SU you can use one
of the following two-letter codes:

Code   Keyboard type
us     United States
fr     France
gr     Germany
it     Italy
sp     Spain
uk     United Kingdom
po     Portugal
sg     Swiss-German
sf     Swiss-French
dk     Denmark
be     Belgium
nl     Netherlands
no     Norway
la     Latin America
sv     Sweden
su     Finland

Petri Kaukasoina
kaukasoi@cc.tut.fi