Hi everybody all around the world,

Whoo for me: I HAVE A US ADB KEYBOARD (in fact it is a prototype of the Apple
IIgs ADB keyboard [who was the first ever ADB keyboard]). (Booos must be sent
directly to me, not to the list, please.)

But, since there is so many thinks to take care off that this one is too much
and was my "wall"; the thing that stopped me.

You also must think that ‘?’ is under ‘+’, Shift have not the same behavior in
the US mapping than in the French one, etc.

So, you think to what you want to do, think that you have to type it right, read
the keyboard layout, be carrefull to type the right key (try to type ‘shutdown
now’: sometimes you type ‘shutdozn’ or ‘noz’...) retype it when you use the
wrong key (because you use French keyboards since the last 30 years) and so on
(I do not say that you use the wrong sentence...)

Removing ‘bad tricks’ - any error possibility you can - lets you thinks at what
you want to do... That was why I liked Macintosh (what was the right spelling of
the file I want to load ?)... one of the reasons why..

Anyway, any answer can help, so I thank you.

PS: this “trouble” affect everyone all over the world that do not use a US keyboard.

Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> 
> At 2:15 -0500 16/11/00, Allen Briggs wrote:
> >  > 1. I still do not know how to be able to press the m/M letter and see on
> >>     screen a 'm/M' (I use a French keyboard [AZERTY], but NetBSD thinks and
> >>     acts just like if I have a QWERTY [US] keyboard).
> >
> >Ah.  There are people on this list who can probably help you with this.
> >I would like to see some support in the kernel for different keyboard
> >mappings at some point, but I don't know enough about foreign keyboards
> >to know how to do this.
> 
> I have no idea how to proceed in making the keyboard change, but in
> the meanwhile I can give a few tips as to using an AZERTY keyboard :
> 
> M is done by pressing ","
> Z is done by pressing "W"
> W is done by pressing "Z"
> Q is done by pressing "A"
> A is done by pressing "Q"
> and all numbers are the same keys but you don't need to hold down
> shift (not on the keypad, the ones on the main keyboard)
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Jonathanć