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From: ljdickey@water.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Plea from across the pond
Message-ID: <996@water.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 14:49:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: water.996
Posted: Thu Jun 11 14:49:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 07:01:07 EDT
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.UUCP (Lee Dickey)
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In article <490@cernvax.UUCP> jmg@cernvax.UUCP () writes:
> ...
>difference between European and US STs. As well as having a different
>keyboard, including use of the <Alternate> key, they have an extra key
>(between the left hand shift key and the first alphabetic key {Y or Z}).
>
>I have recently tried out the Gulam shell, as well as the ue.tos included
>with it. Both seem hard-wired to the US keyboard ...
 ...
>Please, folks, if you do write software that uses direct key numbers,
>rather than the apparent key code, then allow for the fact that one may
>even need a key number mapping. Also, don't forget users of keyboards
>where certain characters need the Alternate key.

I assume that direct key numbers were used for good reason (speed?).
In reading through this article, it occured to me that there might be a
solution open Gulam,  namely, for the user to supply to Gulam a table
that specifies alterations to the keyboard table.  No supplied table,
(the default), would mean no alterations to the keyboard mapping.  I
imagine a table with several rows, each row indicating that the meaning
of a keystroke, or keystroke combination, is to be changed.  For
instance, some volks who are used to typewriters which have the "z" and
"y" interchanged (from the way I am used to seeing them).  could supply
a little table with two rows to correct this problem.

People who want to study ergonomics, and experiment and study different
other keyboard layouts would love this.  I am sure that some would like
to use the Dvorak layout.