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Backslash key does not work with UK keyboard layout #197

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PoloniumRain opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 1 comment
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Backslash key does not work with UK keyboard layout #197

PoloniumRain opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 1 comment

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@PoloniumRain
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PoloniumRain commented Sep 30, 2021

The backslash and vertical bar/pipe symbol key does not work on both a physical UK keyboard and the on-screen keyboard when using the UK keyboard layout in DOSBox-Pure.

Pressing \ or | on the DOS command line does nothing, but the on-screen keyboard will produce a hash instead of a backslash. Considering that the hash key on a UK keyboard layout is where the backslash key is located on a US layout this issue might have something to do with the UK and US layouts being mixed up. All other keys work fine.

Windows 10
RA 1.9.10
DBP 0.17

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Googling "DOS UK keyboard layout" showed me a layout like this:
DOS UK keyboard layout from Wikipedia
This seems to match what I get in DOSBox Pure with the on-screen-keyboard. The \ and | key is located between left shift and Z.

Inside the code of DOSBox, that hardware key is called KBD_extra_lt_gt which matches a lot of European keyboard layouts and why I drew a < character there. Ideally the on-screen-keyboard would reflect the keyboard layout but... not high on my priority list.

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