[Virtualacorn-list] Keyboard compatibility

[Chris Hughes]

In message <01f587fc50.barry.punchard at barry.btinternet.com>
          Barry Punchard <barry.punchard at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 23 Mar          chris at noonehere.co.uk wrote:

>> In message <bdbb7afc50.barry.punchard at barry.btinternet.com>
>>           Barry Punchard <barry.punchard at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23 Mar          chris at noonehere.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>>>> In message <baab6dfc50.barry.punchard at barry.btinternet.com>
>>>>           Barry Punchard <barry.punchard at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I was forced to buy an HP dv5-1250ej laptop here in Israel as my UK one
>>>>> suddenly failed irrecoverably.  I am running Virtual RPC-AdjustSA with
>>>>> RISC OS 4.39 under Windows Vista Home on it.  I have applied all the
>>>>> available relevant updates including Service Pack 2. It is a dual
>>>>> language
>>>>> machine and OS and I opted for the English installation.
>>>> 
>>>>> A problem I have is that some keyboard keys under RISCOS either produce
>>>>> output different from key markings or no output at all. I presume it is a
>>>>> keyboard driver / mapping problem on the RISCOS side as the computer was
>>>>> bought abroad and has essentially a modern US keyboard. On the Windows
>>>>> side all keys work as marked OK.
>>>> 
>>>>> On the PC side:
>>>>> The Keyboard hardware properties are set to 'Standard 101/102=Key or
>>>>> Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard with HP QLB'.
>>>> 
>>>>> 'Regional and Language' > 'Keyboard and Languages' is set to 'English
>>>>> ..US'.
>>>> 
>>>> Might I suggest as a first step changing this to "English UK", this
>>>> will then use a UK layout and should give you a Pound sign....
>>>> 
>>> I went to Regional & Language Options and only have English(US) or Hebrew
>>> (Israel).  Trying to Add Input Language won't let any other to be loaded
>>> and buttons are greyed.  Does that suggest I need a language pack install?
>> 
>> Your problem is related to the fact you brought the laptop overseas,
>> so it comes with the local language pack.
>> 
>> Take a peek at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560
>> 
>> it might help you a bit, otherwise you need to find out if you can
>> installed the English UK Keyboard.
>> 
> Now I have input language English (UK) and keyboard (UK) on the PC side.
> That changes the function of the PC keyboard to an English one as expected
> (i.e. the # now displays the uk pounds sign).

> But the main problem I wanted to solve was to get the keyboard to respond
> under RISC OS with the chars as marked on the present keyboard. I can use
> the alt keys for the occasional pound sign I guess, but not having a prime
> or quote char, or square and curly brackets, is a pain.

OK, so in RISC OS its needs to be configured to Territory 1 and 
Country UK

Remember to shutdown and restart VRPC when you have done this, 
although I am not sure why it does not use the info from the PC side 
anyway....

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Chris Hughes
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