in doubt both tr versions. I will talk with thraex and others about this theme. Why I? vecho is tricky, so I had to run tests with turkish files and with turkish keyboard layouts. e.g. they use two different i characters, i found only one on my keyboard, but this is only one problem. i used mkeyb for german and keyb for turkish. at the end i was absolutely confused till I found out what was the reason for something like thisisalongtextwithoutspacebetween and this was written correct in the file. today i found the same problem in spanish text. but now i know that only two apostrophes were missing, this makes it easy. nevertheless... coordinating different languages is not so simple as you may think. -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet. Am 03.01.22, 15:35 schrieb tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de>:
> 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
>
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