Re: Keyboard driver

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:27:16 +0100, Colin Wilson <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> The laptop was bought in Australia by my son. I've only just
>> realiased that there is no £ sign on the keyboard. If I scrap the UK
>> driver and use the US one it's nearly right but I'd like to have the £
>> symbol available.
>
>Isn`t there a built-in keyboard mapping for the UK ? (ok, you`ll have
>the wrong key caps, but if you know where it is...)

I know what you mean and it would have been the answer. When I tried
the UK code I went over all the likely keys to see if the symbol was
covered, but it wasn't. Of course, I might have made a mistake. In DOS
I could try all the old code page commands.

Colin
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