> But I still think about adding turkish layouts in mkeyb. why? obviously thraex has had a turkish keyboard driver for the last 30 years. what is the problem ou are trying to solve?
and thraex hasn't complained himself, so it's not up to you to complain. > It would make much things easier. what kind of things exactly? a) there are 2 kinds of turkish keyboards. which one do you mean? b) I wouldn't even qualify to verify if the keyboard driver works correct. you will have to find a turkish speaking/understanding person with at least moderate technical skills to do this. > Which amount do you think I should pay for > a charity community, Tom? after thinking about this, this project doesn't interest me; however I would help to implement this. most of the available keyboards were NOT done by me, or at least corrected by others. Tom > I would pay up to 300 Euro for this, of > course you will get a copy of my bank account (account values > deleted, only the money I will pay will be shown). > If you want, you can send me the response to my mail address directly. > > Willi > > > Sent: Friday, December 31, 2021 at 11:36 PM > From: "Ralf Quint" <freedos...@gmail.com> > To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard > On 12/31/2021 9:19 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > mkeyb supports a lot of keyboard layouts e.g. "gr" for german etc. > FreeDOS uses the set lang= xy variable for many country related things. > but the gr etc. in mkeyb xy differ from this variable that is used for nls, > help etc. > Would it be possible to change the country characters in mkeyb > e.g. german from "gr" to "de" and so on so that it is possible to > say "mkeyb %lang%" to get the correct keyboard layout in FD without big > problems? > This would be a great help for the users and for Jerome. > > Well, no,not really. > > As Tom already mentioned, those keyboard layout codes have always > been that way, since the first version of DOS that had a KEYB > "driver". And for compatibility reasons, this should be the same. > The reason for GR instead of DE is that all those abbreviations > are derived from the English language, as in "GeRmany", not > "DEutschland". Hasn't been a problem though either, as there was, at > least not officially AFAIK, a GReek KEYB option. For the same reason > it is SP for SPain (not ESpana), HU for Hungary (not Magyar), though > they chose SU for SUomi instead of FI for Finland (not sure if that > was a stab against the then still existing Soviet Union, LOL). > > You also need to understand that the keyboard layout codes are NOT > identical with the "language" being used (for example in > translations), as for example both US and UK are for different > keyboard layouts used in the US of A and the United Kingdom, even > though they both are supposed to be English Speaking countries. Same > goes for FR and CF, which defines the keyboard layout for FRance and > French Canada respectively, though the on screen language in both > cases is French. Or PO and BT for POrtugal and BRazil, which both use (some > form of) Portuguese. > > I don't have an easy way to test this right now in any Windows > version, but I am pretty sure that a similar distinction exists > there as well, though those settings are there made within a GUI > tool not by using command line parameters line in DOS... > > Ralf > > > > > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > > _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel > mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards Tom Ehlert +49-15151898538 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
