Finally, I discover there is a tool that does what I want: allow keyboard
map definitions for (in my case) Windows 2000.
I've just finished using it, and there's only one problem: those bat
rastiches in Redmond require that all keys generated by 'space' be "spacing"
keys, whatever that means.
So I can't bind shift-space = _ as I normally do under X. (Damn, that's
annoying.)
Beyond that, I've got two MSI's to offer:
A 'basic' keyboard definition that adds AltGraph (Alt+Ctrl, or Right-Alt)
and AltGr+Shift keys as follows:
AltGr+Shift:
1 -> '�' SUPERSCRIPT ONE U+00B9
2 -> '�' SUPERSCRIPT TWO U+00B2
3 -> '�' SUPERSCRIPT THREE U+00B3
/ -> '�' DIVISION SIGN U+00F7
AltGr:
` -> '�' NOT SIGN U+00AC
1 -> '�' INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK U+00A1
2 -> '�' CURRENCY SIGN U+00A4
4 -> '�' SECTION SIGN U+00A7
5 -> '�' PILCROW SIGN = PARAGRAPH SIGN U+00B6
8 -> '�' MULTIPLICATION SIGN U+00D7
0 -> '�' DEGREE SIGN U+00B0
- -> '�' MACRON = overline U+00AF
= -> '�' PLUS-MINUS SIGN U+00B1
r -> '�' REGISTERED SIGN = REGISTERED TRADE MARK SIGN U+00AE
[ -> '�' LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
= LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET U+00AB
] -> '�' RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
= RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET U+00BB
\ -> '�' BROKEN BAR U+00A^
' -> '�' ACUTE ACCENT U+00B4
c -> '�' COPYRIGHT SIGN U+00A9
. -> '�' MIDDLE DOT U+00B7
/ -> '�' INVERTED QUESTION MARK U+00BF
available at: www.longacre-inc.com/perl6/kbdUSP6b.msi
(The KLC files are in the same place with the same basename.)
and a 'weird' version that does all of the above, plus reverses the shift
state of all the numeric digits plus tilde: �`~ 1! 2@ 3# 4$ 5% 6^ 7& 8* 9(
0)� -> �~` !1 @2 #3 $4 %5 ^6 &7 *8 (9 )0�
available at: www.longacre-inc.com/perl6/kbdUSP6e.msi
Note that you must, AFAICT, have Administrator privs to perform the
installation, but do not need admin to add/use the keyboard once it has been
installed. (Probably has to do with write privs to c:\windows\system32, or
wherever.)
The application, for the inevitable guy that agrees with me in principle but
violently disagrees with my choice of mappings (where's T. William Wells
when you need him?), is a Microsoft product (requires .NET framework)
available at: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
To speculate some (I'm not sure if I should take insult or not, Piers)
perhaps we could add � (MACRON) to the list of identifier characters:
$foo_bar
$fooBar
$foo�bar
Put ��that�� in your naming convention and smoke it.
(I have no idea how to translate that character in a reversible way. _over_
perhaps?)
=Austin
