Re: [Emutos-devel] Dual keyboard support

[Dima S. <avt...@gm...>]

Dear Roger,

Sunday, April 19, 2015, 6:44:56 PM, you wrote:



> I've now added "dual keyboard support" to the repository code, i.e. the ability
> to switch between two different mappings of scancode-to-ascii.  This only
> affects Greek & Russian keyboards; all other languages should continue to
> function exactly as before.

> For Russian & Greek languages, here's what you need to know:
> 1. The keyboards start up with a Latin mapping (for Greek, the US keyboard; for
> Russian, the same as before (which I think was also the US keyboard)
> 2. You toggle between the mappings by pressing LeftShift-Alt at any time.
> 3. When you are using the alternate mapping, the alphabet keys should generate
> letters in the appropriate language; other keys (numbers, special characters)
> are expected to produce the same character as the Latin mapping [although this
> is just a function of the mapping tables so could be changed if so desired].

> Known problems:
> 1. On the Greek keyboard, when using dead keys to generate I or Y with a ..
> accent, the generated ascii codes (0xf4, 0xf5) are correct for the DOS737 code
> page; however, the characters displayed are the standard Atari ASCII characters
> for those values.  To fix this requires an update to the Greek fonts.

> Please let me know if you see any wrong characters being generated (other than
> those mentioned above) or if you have any keyboard problem that didn't exist
> before.


many thanks for your excellent work !

I will fully test that in couple of days when arrive home.



> BTW, many thanks to Vincent for making the switch to Git so easy!

> Roger


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 Dima                            mailto:avt...@gm...