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Can't write the letter "q" in dosbox 0.74

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First post, by eru777

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Hello everyone.

I am using an old commercial app displaying Greek. (Using windows 10)
By using the following command I managed to view and write Greek.

KEYB el459 737

Now I can read and type Greek, but I can't write the letter Q.
Neither q nor Q works. Whenever I type q it shows

;

I tried changing languages, but it still shows the same thing. Greek or English, q appears as ";"

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Reply 1 of 1, by eru777

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Okay so I found a solution. Instead of using the built in Greek support-

I downloaded a program named "abcgrl". It ends in .com , some kind of obsolete app ending (It unfortunately doesn't link to any websites from the 70s 🤣 )
So I placed it at the same folder as the main program, and put this at the end of autoexec:

abcgrl

Right before the command for starting the program itself.
It works fine for now, I can type Q and q fine. I'll update this post in the future if anything goes awry (hopefully not).

The only difference is that it changed how you switch from one language to the next.
Before it was Alt + Shift, now it's Left Alt+ Right Enter 😊

EDIT: Now I can't type the equal symbol "=" 🤣, guess you can't have everything in life! Oh well, I'll experiment with other keyboards and edit here for updated info.

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