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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