From: Mark Slagell <bald_soprano AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: mystery European scancode
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 03:38:39 -0600
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My question was worded too broadly.  Probably it should be limited to
the UK as an exception among English-language setups.  The program in
question seems to work fine everywhere else (including Germany) but in
the UK according to several reports the '\' key is unresponsive.  Since
posting the question a couple of Brits have told me the standard
scancode there seems to be 0x56, and 0x2b is unused.  No idea why that
would be the case.  Anyway that seems to be the info I needed.

Michael Mauch wrote:
> 
> 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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