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Am 21.07.2018 um 07:51 schrieb dick balaska:
> On 07/20/2018 11:18 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
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>> I will add XPilot soon if you'd like. But do note that what you linked
>> to is for German keyboards only!
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>> Mike
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> Only is a strong word. I don't know what keys are where on a German
> keyboard [1] but those commands are exactly in the right place for my US
> keyboard. My guess is, at the raw key level, all western keyboards send
> the same keys and then at a higher level 'y' gets swapped with 'z';
> which is why software has to ask you what you have instead of it just
> knowing.
That is indeed the case.
If for example you take a German keyboard, scratch off all the labels,
and re-label the keys according to the UK standard, you have a perfectly
fine UK keyboard.
(It's not that simple to convert a US keyboard to a German or UK one,
because the two differ not only visually but also mechanically, the US
layout being based on the 101/104-key ANSI mechanical layout and the
German and UK keyboards being based on the 102/105-key ISO mechanical
layout. The primary differences are in the shape of the return key, with
one other key placed differently as a consequence, and in the size of
the left shift key, which is more narrow in the ISO layout to accomodate
one more key. The English Wikipedia mentions a total of six different
mechanical layouts in common use worldwide.)
This actually makes it hard to build custom keypads with letters
arranged alphabetically, e.g.
A B C D E
F G H I J
K L M N O
P Q R S T
U V W X Y
Z . , - ?
because the USB standard for keyboards does not deal in characters(*),
just in keys. So if you designed the above keypad for the US market, a
German user would instead find it producing
A B C D E
F G H I J
K L M N O
P Q R S T
U V W X Z
Y . , ß _
(*If you happen to know otherwise, please let me know.)
The problem with games is that some deal with key codes, while others
deal with characters.
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