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International keyboard support (Developers)

posted by mbbrutman , Washington, USA, 18.02.2023, 03:17

Understood about the difference between the display code page and the keyboard layout. I know this, but not everything comes across in a web forum posting.

I'm using text mode because I am targeting CGA text mode on slow machines, and the graphics modes for those machines would never be usable. CGA and MDA users will be limited to CP437. The same code has to run everywhere because I don't have the time to do multiple versions. EGA and VGA users might have a different code page loaded, so I don't want to make assumptions about what they have loaded, hence the need for a flexible mapping from whatever codepage is loaded to Unicode.

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Complete thread:

• International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 21.01.2023, 21:44 (Developers)
  • International keyboard support - marcov, 22.01.2023, 14:19
  • International keyboard support - tom, 22.01.2023, 18:06
  • International keyboard support - Laaca, 22.01.2023, 21:55
    • International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 22.01.2023, 22:46
      • International keyboard support - Laaca, 23.01.2023, 00:20
      • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 23.01.2023, 18:12
        • International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 23.01.2023, 23:51
          • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 24.01.2023, 21:10
        • International keyboard support - tom, 12.02.2023, 18:39
          • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 13.02.2023, 15:35
            • International keyboard support - tom, 13.02.2023, 18:36
              • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 14.02.2023, 04:51
            • International keyboard support - tkchia, 13.02.2023, 20:13
              • International keyboard support - bretjohn, 14.02.2023, 05:05
      • International keyboard support - tom, 14.02.2023, 12:17
        • International keyboard support - tom, 15.02.2023, 13:19
          • International keyboard support - marcov, 15.02.2023, 18:14
            • International keyboard support - tom, 15.02.2023, 21:31
              • International keyboard support - mbbrutman, 18.02.2023, 03:17
                • International keyboard support - Aitor, 06.03.2023, 01:09