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Subject: Re: Reading the keyboard without a window.
Keywords: keyboard,read,easy?
Message-ID: <6529@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 14:06:05 GMT
References: <6675@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1990Feb9.150945.29787@santra.uucp> <131583@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Feb13.140718.26883@santra.uucp> <131780@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <131780@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <1990Feb13.140718.26883@santra.uucp> (Juhana R{s{nen) writes:
>>Well, every continent seems to have some very own bad habits. What annoys me
>>on YOUR side, are the numerous programs that don't support national keyboards,
>>and this problem is ancient compared with ours (as you can see when you see my
>>name, the braces should be 'a's with dots). 
                                       ^^ umlauds? :)
>
>You're correct, hopefully the version of MicroEMACS I did will find its
[...]
>--Chuck McManis
[...]

Is it impossible to have a keymap that will accept multiple keypresses
to construct the various foreign characters?  Then in foreign countries
there would only be one keypress (I assume -- haven't really seen
foreign keyboards) to get those characters.  That way, the foreign
characters would be available on any US program that uses the CON:
handler, right???  Troubles would only appear when the keyboard is
accessed directly, right???

 _   /|
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