Dave wrote: Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:07 pm
Exact UK layout no changes.
Not even $ instead of £?
martyn_hill wrote: Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:46 pm
To be fair, the UK keyboard was already pretty much based on the US layout - something I was surprised to discover when developing the extra language maps for the Qbase
martyn_hill wrote: Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:46 pm
To be fair, the UK keyboard was already pretty much based on the US layout - something I was surprised to discover when developing the extra language maps for the Qbase
Did you finish any of them?
No, not yet. I developed a flexible framework to support up to 8 distinct, user-selectable country key-maps (for a given firmware image) but only made a start on the actual mapping data for a few European KB layouts. So, at present, only UK and DE layouts are actually fully baked...
Peter wrote: Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:07 pm
Not even $ instead of £?
The ASCII code 96 for £ was something specific for British-made computers. Apart from Sinclair, only the Acorn machines used it as far as I know. On standard ASCII it should display as backquote (`). So the backquote sign is not available in QL ASCII.
Back in the '80s there were systems that had the £ at ASCII 35 (originally #), # at ASCII 95 (originally _) and _ at 96 - notably Teletext which was a Britisch invention. So again the backquote sign was sacrificed to get a code for the pound sign which would fit into 7-bit ASCII.
