Using Foreign Keyboard Mapping
When you start the Avid editing application under a new locale, the application automatically creates a Keyboard setting for your language. You can view the keyboard layout by clicking the appropriate Keyboard setting in the Settings scroll list.
The default Avid keyboard layouts for English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish languages map correctly to the characters on the physical keyboard. However, if you are using a different language, the display in the Keyboard palette might not match your physical keyboard layout. You can use the Foreign Keyboard Mapping button in the Keyboard palette to display the correct character in the Keyboard palette.
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The Foreign Keyboard Mapping function is not needed for English, French,
Italian, German, or Spanish.
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To set the keyboard mapping for a key:
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Double-click Keyboard in the Settings scroll list in the Project window.
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The Keyboard palette opens.
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Compare the layout to your physical keyboard.
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If some of the letters do not match, you can change the characters
displayed in the Keyboard palette.
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Click the Foreign Keyboard Mapping button.
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Click the key that you want to change in the Keyboard palette.
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The key changes to blue.
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Press the corresponding key on your keyboard.
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The image in the Keyboard palette changes to match your keyboard,
and the mapped key remains blue.
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Each language has a certain number of keys that do not map to functions
in the Avid editing application. These are referred to as "dead" keys. You
cannot map functions to these dead keys. If you try to do so, the system
displays an error message.
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