>> codepage is a display thing, essentially it's the table how to >> convert 8-bit bytes into a visable character set, and mostly >> unrelated to the way the keyboard driver converts scancodes into >> bytes.
> The Code Page and the Keyboard layout are not unrelated at all -- -- they are > HIGHLY related. nope. it's not uncommon for germans to use US-ASCII keyboards (QWERTY). other use german keyboards (QWERTZ). in both cases the codepage is 437 (BIOS default) or 858 (with €), but Y and Z are swapped. the same is probably true for french keyboards. what you want is "GR" or "FR", which is not avaliable in a documented way. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
