$ reports '223' With Swiss French Keyboard on Windows

[Jacques Hausser]

Complement: in both Swiss french and French keyboards, rawkeydown = 36  
corresponds to the localisation of "$" on American keyboard.

Le 20 nov. 2008 à 18:25, Jacques Hausser a écrit :

> Hi Trevor,
>
> Strange... I have no Windows available home, but I made a little  
> standalone to check it with Crossover, and the "$" character number  
> becomes... 92 ! And it's not the only case, even if for most of  
> chars the numbers are corrects. For the "French french" keyboard "$"  
> number is 59 and for the American one it is 36, OK.
> I think the responsability is on the "Windoïds" for Mac, it should  
> be tested on a native Windows.
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 20 nov. 2008 à 17:43, Trevor DeVore a écrit :
>
>> Anyone know why rawkeydown reports 223 when pressing the "$" key on  
>> a Swiss French keyboard on Windows? After the $ character is  
>> entered then the Revolution field reports that the character number  
>> is 36 but that isn't much help if you are trying to filter input.  
>> On Mac the same keyboard layout reports 36 in rawkeydown.
>>
>> I've tested on Windows XP running under VMWare Fusion and OS X 10.5.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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>> Trevor DeVore
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