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- ReadMe file for the International Keyboard Handler Generator vn 2.08
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- The !IKHG (International Keyboard Handler Generator) application has been
- produced as a route by which users and others - mainly international
- distributors - can re-map the keyboard layout to produce keyboards suitable
- for use with languages other than English. Refer to the User Guide and the
- RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manual for more general information.
-
- Simply double-click the application icon in the usual way; in response to
- the question "For what country is the module to be created?" you must enter
- a country name 'known about' by the International module you are using. RISC
- OS 2.00 (International module 1.13) knows about the following 'countries':-
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- Default UK Master Compact Italy Spain France Germany Portugal
- Esperanto Greece Sweden Finland Denmark Norway Iceland Canada1
- Canada2 Canada ISO1
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- Additionally, the International module 1.14 also knows about Russia and
- Russia2 (Russia2 uses the 'IBM Russian' character set) and provides the
- ISO8859 Cyrillic alphabet and the IBM Cyrillic alphabet. International
- module version 1.14 is RMEnsured by !IKHG version 2.07 and later, and
- should therefore also be RMEnsured when using InternationalKeyboard
- modules produced with this version of !IKHG.
-
- Follow the instructions given by the on-screen help text produced by the
- program. The InternationalKeyboard module(s) produced by the program can be
- soft-loaded and will replace the corresponding ROM module in the normal way.
- Shift-Escape will usefully abandon the program entirely (but any changes
- will be lost); Escape leaves the mapping portion, and enters the compiling
- phase (which is uninterruptible). !IKHG needs 768k to run.
-
- A note of guidance - don't re-invent the wheel. If the PC world has already
- adopted a particular National layout don't invent a different one, no matter
- how poor you think the apparent de facto standard one might be; produce a
- 'pure' superset if you need ready access to additional characters, and try
- to follow a logical sequence if you do expand the repertoire. Also, bear in
- mind that future keyboards may have the "104th" key added (immediately to
- the right of the left-hand shift key); for countries which would normally
- have this key, it is suggested that it is programmed both in 'position 104'
- and e.g. the '¤£' key (immediately to the left of the backspace/delete key).
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- This software may be copied freely for use with any computer system
- containing the RISC Operating System ("RISC OS") but it may not be altered
- in any way or sold without the express written permission of Acorn Computers
- Limited ("Acorn"). If this software is copied it must be copied complete
- with all its associated files including this ReadMe file. The modules
- created by this software may be separately copied freely for use on any
- computer system containing RISC OS but may not be sold without the express
- written permission of Acorn.
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- Copyright © Acorn Computers Limited 1990
- 16th February 1990
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