FC3 Swedish keyboard mapping incorrect, how to fix?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Sun Jun 19 23:29:21 UTC 2005


On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:58:15 +0200, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:15:13 +0200, Bo Berglund
><bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:
>
>>I am using a Swedish keyboard on FC3 and I just found out where I
>>could change the key mappings to Swedish from the US mapping thta was
>>used by FC3.
>>But now I have discovered that the key mappings are incorrect!
>>In fact there is no way I have found to enter characters like $ and \
>>anymore. These foreign characters are mapped on a Swedish keyboard to
>>the right hand Alt key plus 4 and + respecively. But when I use these
>>combinations nothing happens!
>>
>>So how are you supposed to enter £ $ \ { } [ ] | @ in FC3 when you use
>>a Swedish keyboard?
>>I suppose this is a problem also for German key layouts where there
>>are a lot of national characters on the main map.
>
>On the VirtualPC list I received advice that the VPC manager is
>capturing the Right-Alt as a "Host key" which has functions to move
>mouse control back to the host operating system among others.
>Advice was to change this host key mapping to Right-Ctrl or similar.
>I thought that I should mention it also here for any future thread
>search.
>
Except it did not cure the problem...
Still no special characters!

Bo Berglund




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