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[Solved]AZERTY (French) keyboard layout in 0.70 (OK) and 0.72 (not OK)

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First post, by leTigreBleu

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Hello,

I know it is a classic question: How do I have the \ or * on a non US keyboard on DOSBox 0.72? I am running it under Linux Gentoo, with a French AZERTY keyboard.

In 0.70, using a "fr" keyboard layout (in dosbox.conf) worked perfectly.
I have then updated to 0.72. I have created a new config file (dosbox.conf). In 0.72, with the "fr" layout, the letters (a,z,e,r, and so on) are correct. But some symbols (like \, like *) do not appear correctly!

I have just checked: After downgrading to 0.70, the keyboard works perfectly.

Is this a known issue with 0.72?

Have a nice day,
leTigreBleu

PS : Congratulations to the DOSBox team! It is so nice to be able to run old software on different hardware & OS! And, by the way, the joystick handling is now wonderful in 0.72, I can play to Prince of Persia I without any problem.

Last edited by leTigreBleu on 2007-10-07, 11:36. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 2, by Qbix

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yeah there appears to be a small problem with it.
I think the symbols are of the belgium keyboard layout.

You could use an external keyb.com to load the correct one)

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Reply 2 of 2, by leTigreBleu

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Thank you very much! It is a good workaround.

For DOSBox users, here is what I have done:
- in the [dos] section of dosbox.conf: keyboardlayout=none
- in the [autoexec] section: c:\keyb\keyb fr

Have a nice day,
leTigreBleu.

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