Description:
This is a complete german keyboard map which maps the keyboard identical to a PC running under DOS or Windows for a standard 102 key PC keyboard on a BeBox or for BeOS R3 Intel. That means Alt-Gr (and not Ctrl) is used for {[]}~|@, and the missing key for greater and lower and pipe is also working. Even dead keys work correctly, not like the maps provided by Be, so now you can type in a tilde (see: ~) and a ^. Much better for programming ;-) If you wanna use this map with a 105 key keyboard with the Windows 95 keys you should probably edit the file and adapt the first block with the command key usage. It would be nice if Be would include this map into future versions of BeOS and if Be would fix the Keymap application so that every key would be displayed, not only the US style 101 keys. I made this map since the Be provided German and German-latin1 maps are completely insufficient. The German-latin1 map is not so bad, but for a PC user they are both unacceptable. Changes in 1.01: On the numeric keypad two rows were swapped. It was the mapping of a telephone, not that of a keyboard. That error was also in the original map provided by Be. Now this map should be perfect. ;-) Changes in 1.2: Added support for the Euro symbol. The mapping is AltGr-E, as suggested by the european community. You need some fonts with this symbol in it to use this. Microsoft has some fonts with the euro symbol on their site (and they are free). Hopefully Be will include this map now in R4, since IMO the maps provided by Be suck really hard on a BeBox and a Intel PC under BeOS. Bugs: On startup NumLock should be on, but despite the fact that only NumLock stands in the source, BeOS turns also ScrollLock on. Donīt ask me why, looks like a bug in the keymap application. Usage: keymap -l <german_pc.map Mirror Download Sites:
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