Yep. The KEYB command at an OS/2 Window changes the keyboard layout for the entire OS.
KEYB UX for the US international KEYB HE for Hebrew Stan Goodman wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:01:57 UTC, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > opined: > > > That's odd. It should work then. Hmm. Do you have a IBM862 file in your > > LANGUAGE\CODEPAGE directory? > > As I said in another message, the file is indeed present. > > It has turned out that the class of acceptable CODEPAGEs is dependent > on the COUNTRY statement, although for the life of me, I don't see why > that should be so. > > On the chance that it might work, I changed the COUNTRY to 972, and > again introduced the two changes that you suggested yesterday. It > works, and I can type Hebrew into the telephone-finder web page. My > world is now a more cheerful place; NOW we are having fun. Thank you, > Mike, for steering me to the Alt-Shift solution. > > Since OS/2 v2.0, I have COUNTRY as 049 (Germany -- I wanted a European > country), for various reasons that seemed sufficient and good in the > says of v2.0, but which are no longer valid in the 21st century > version. Again, I fail to see why a user, regardless of the COUNTRY > statement, should be prevented from using any codepage that seems > useful to him; it seems narrowminded. > > Additional question: I have long used the UX keyboard, because it > makes European diacritics easy to write. Is there a way to switch > keyboards without rebooting, so that I can have access to that > keyboard when I want it? > > This problem has turned out to have nothing to do with browsers, of > course, but I note in passing that there are the following differences > in the way various applications react to this trick: > > E.EXE, Mozilla, and the two Pillarsoft editors retained the correct > writing direction (right-to-left). Mozilla and Pillarsoft also moved > the cursor to the right margin (when the writing field was otherwise > empty), which is more aesthetic. EPM is disappointing: it writes the > correct characters, but doesn't get the writing direction right (it > may be that there is a macro to correct this, or maybe something to > put in a recompile. DeScribe didn't react to Alt-Shift at all. > > > > > Stan Goodman wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:28:19 UTC, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > opined: > > > > > > > What version of OS/2? > > > > > > This is MCP-1 with no fixes, just as it was mailed to me by IBM. > > > > > > > You might have a version that is from before we converged the Bidi code with > > > > the English OS. > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > Stan Goodman wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:19:47 UTC, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > opined: > > > > > > > > > > > Sure, you can do this. Have fun! > > > > > > > > > > > > In config.sys, set CODEPAGE statement to CODEPAGE=862,850. > > > > > > > > > > > > Change the KEYBOARD statement to HE instead of US. > > > > > > > > > > Aha! You have reminded me that I went through this some time ago; it > > > > > didn't work then, and it didn't work just now when I repeated the > > > > > exercise. > > > > > > > > > > After I changed both statements exactly as you suggest, the reboot is > > > > > interrupted by the error message: > > > > > > > > > > SYS1196: The parameter "862" on line 40 of the CONFIG.SYS file is not > > > > > acceptable for the CODEPAGE statement. Line 40 is ignored. > > > > > > > > > > The order of the code pages makes no difference. > > > > > > > > > > Are we having fun yet? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Reboot. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now start e.exe. > > > > > > > > > > > > Notice that Alt+Shift right and Alt+Shift left change the cursor. This is > > > > > > how you change whether or not you are typing Hebrew or English. > > > > > > > > > > > > Have fun! > > > > > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > Stan Goodman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:30:32 UTC, Michael Kaply > > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Stan, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Remind me again because I always forget. Are you on a Hebrew OS/2 or > > > > > > > > English OS/2? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's the US version. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Stan Goodman > > > > > > > Qiryat Tiv'on > > > > > > > Israel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public > > > > > > > places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli > > > > > > > Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat > > > > > > > (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European > > > > > > > wrinkle. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Stan Goodman > > > > > Qiryat Tiv'on > > > > > Israel > > > > > > > > > > Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". > > > > > > > > > > The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public > > > > > places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. > > > > > > > > > > 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli > > > > > Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat > > > > > (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European > > > > > wrinkle. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Stan Goodman > > > Qiryat Tiv'on > > > Israel > > > > > > Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". > > > > > > The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public > > > places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. > > > > > > 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli > > > Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat > > > (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European > > > wrinkle. > > > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". > > The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public > places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. > > 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli > Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat > (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European > wrinkle.
