From:	michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: mystery European scancode
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 1997 02:00:05 +0100
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On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:38:34 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

> Germans, e.g., have to press '<AltGr> <sharp-s>' to get a backslash,
> where <AltGr> is the right <Alt> key, and <sharp-s> is the one to the
> right of <0>. It's an absolute nightmare for people who have learned
> typing with all ten fingers, I can tell you :-(

I use an alternative keyboard driver (kdrive) instead of the usual keyb
that comes with MS-DOS/Win95. Using that driver, I can get the backslash
with the '#' key (scancode 0x2B) left to the Enter key, as well as with
the AltGr-<sharp s> combination (scancode 0x0C).
 
> If I were you, I'd forget about scancodes altogether in the context of
> non-US keyboards. 

Yes, true (at least for the keys that don't return 0 for the first call
of getch()).

Regards...
		Michael

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