Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-06 Thread Rugxulo
Saluton, On 7/6/11, Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote: Em 05/07/2011 18:25, Rugxulo escreveu: Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste 500 hours on my account! ;-) It's very low priority. My friend, it is always a pleasure. I do hope that end-users

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-07-06 Thread Bret Johnson
We (well, at least I) have a severe dilemma going on here. int 15.4f is supposed to be called from the BIOS from the INT 09 handler, and NOBODY else. I've done some more research regarding this, and it is never stated anywhere that this function can ONLY be called from the INT 09 handler.

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-07-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bret, int 15.4f is supposed to be called from the BIOS from the INT 09 handler, and NOBODY else. I've done some more research regarding this, and it is never stated anywhere that this function can ONLY be called from the INT 09 handler. That is merely an assumption on your part. As

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-07-06 Thread Bret Johnson
I disagree here. You would only need reentrant handling if it could happen that int 15.4f is called while int 15.4f already is busy. This is unlikely for two reasons ... Agreed: Unlikely, but absolutely not impossible. Drivers should be designed to handle even unlikely events without

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-06 Thread Jeffrey
Hi I don't know much (anything) about unicode but, Right-to-left might be hard to do (I guess?), but technically as long as they can see and enter what they want, I'm sure they can get used to left-to-right. Excuse me? How can anyone type the arabic, syriac or hebrew abjads from left to