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Spanish keyboard not working

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First post, by vivadavid

Posted on 2011-04-30, 16:29

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Hello, members of this forum,

I wanted to know if somebody has had a similar problem with the keyboard and if there's a solution.

My keyboard is Spanish, and although I can write, for example, the ñ, I can't type special characters such as á, é, í, ó, ú.

I have tried to change keyboardlayout=auto to keyboardlayout=sp, but it doesn't work.

Could anybody help me? Thanks very much.

Reply 1 of 9, by vivadavid

Posted on 2011-04-30, 16:31

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I forgot to say that DosBox shows this message: "DOS keyboard layout loaded with main language code SP for layout sp", so it seems DosBox doesn't detect an error.

Reply 2 of 9, by bloodbat

Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:14

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Perhaps try as in the screenshot?

Reply 3 of 9, by vivadavid

Posted on 2011-05-01, 11:07

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Hello, Bloodbat,

I wanted to ask you if you used the ASCII combinations or whether you typed the characters normally. Also, did you change anything in dosbox.conf?

Thanks!

Reply 4 of 9, by vivadavid

Posted on 2011-05-01, 18:44

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I had already tried using the "keyb" command, but I've tried again and nothing. I can see you get 858 in both cases (in "keyb sp", I think you should get 437). In any case, I still don't understand why the Spanish keyboard doesn't work for me.

Reply 5 of 9, by bloodbat

Posted on 2011-05-01, 18:45

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I typed the characters normally, the only ASCII code I remember these days is for "ñ".

The relevant .conf parts:

1[sdl]
2fullscreen=false
3fulldouble=true
4fullresolution=1280x1024
5windowresolution=original
6output=ddraw
7autolock=true
8sensitivity=100
9waitonerror=true
10priority=normal,normal
11mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
12usescancodes=true
13
14[dosbox]
15language=
16machine=svga_s3
17captures=capture
18memsize=16
19
20[dos]
21xms=true
22ems=true
23umb=true
24keyboardlayout=auto

As you can see, except for the resolution, fulldouble and output, it's pretty much the default.

Reply 6 of 9, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2011-05-01, 20:08

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It works fine for me too.

As you can see I have a keyb sp 437 command executed in the [Autoexec] section of DOSBox.

Reply 7 of 9, by vivadavid

Posted on 2011-05-02, 17:56

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Well, it doesn't work for me and I don't understand why! I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium Edition: does this have anything to do with it? I have a Spanish keyboard configured as Spanish and I never have problems with it. Is there anything I could try ? Thanks!