Sorry for the long silence and thank's a lot for your feedbacks! I
crafted a DOS622 bootfloppy which does correctly select my Swiss German
keyboard.
It did take much much longer than I expected :)
---------------------------Config.sys-------------------------------
country=041,850,a:\dos\country.sys
install=a:\dos\keyb.com sg,,a:\dos\keyboard.sys
Hopfully this helps.
Thank's in advance.
Harry
Am 24.09.2021 19:13, schrieb Bret Johnson:
{harr...@vtxmail.ch}
{.ch is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Switzerland in
the Domain Name System of the Internet.}
I understand that, but that really has nothing to do with what
keyboard layout he wants to use. There are two "standard" keyboard
layouts for Switzerland, a French one (code SF) and a German one (code
SG or SD). They are both QWERTZ, but some of the other punctuation
characters are in different places. That is often the case with
different keyboard layouts -- many times the Latin alphabetic
characters are the same (usually QWERTY, QWERTZ, or AZERTY) but the
rest of the keyboard can be VERY different. People can also design
their own custom keyboard layouts if they want, but that can create
all sorts of compatibility problems.
He'll also need to worry about the Code Page, especially if he ever
needs to use the Euro symbol. He may also need to worry about the
Country settings for sorting and punctuation. And if he ever wants to
print from DOS, there's a huge can of worms related to Printer Code
Pages (which FreeDOS really hasn't addressed at all).
In addition, just because his e-mail address is from Switzerland
doesn't necessarily mean that he uses either of the Swiss keyboard
layouts. There are also several "International" keyboard layouts that
might work well for Switzerland. Even having a Swiss email address
doesn't necessarily mean that he actually lives in Switzerland (he
probably does, but that's not guaranteed).
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