Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST ROM and Charset Differences: US, French, German, UK, ??
Message-ID: <262@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 19:58:01 GMT
References: <671@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <11124@prls.UUCP> <254@forty2.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
Lines: 22
Keywords: ROM Europe USA UK

In article <254@forty2.UUCP> poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) writes:
.....
>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.
....

I forgot to  mention one  nasty side effect  of  the  additional code,
<Alternate>+<Control>+<Key>  doesn't produce  the  correct     control
characters, so on  my  ST at home I  can't produce all   ASCII control
characters (Example:  Control  [)  without remapping  the keyboard...I
don't know if Atari thinks this a feature or a bug.....



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