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Configuring ROM-DOS 3-13
After you have loaded KEYB, your keyboard layout reflects the country
you chose. You can switch back to the US keyboard layout at any time
by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 (Alt+Left-Shift from Russian and Czech Republic
keyboards). You can return to the modified keyboard layout by pressing
Ctrl+Alt+F2 (Alt+Right-Shift from Russian and Czech Republic
keyboards). You can also switch to a completely different layout by
running KEYB again and specifying another country identifier.
Appendix G includes diagrams of the different keyboard layouts. The
diagrams show native-language keyboards that tend to have different
layouts from US keyboards. KEYB does its best to map the available
hardware keys to the desired layout. Some symbols may not be available
when using a US keyboard and a non-US layout. In the diagrams,
symbols appearing in the lower-right corner of a key are activated by
pressing the AltGr key along with the desired key. On keyboards without
a right AltGr, pressing Ctrl+Alt represents the AltGr key.
Note: The AltGr key is not found on a standard US keyboard.
Some keys are prefix keys that don’t generate any symbol by themselves
but modify the following keystroke. For example, on most European
keyboards, the apostrophe key (') causes the next letter to be accented.
To produce an apostrophe alone, press the apostrophe key followed by
the space bar. Other keys that may behave as prefixes, depending on
the current keyboard layout, are the backward apostrophe (`), tilde (~),
and caret (^).
Some keys represent symbols that are not available in all code pages.
For example, the German keyboard can produce a capital A with a caret
above it. In the default German code page (850), that symbol is
represented by the code 182. However, in the alternate German code
page (437) there is no such symbol. If you are using the German layout
and code page 437, and you try to produce a capital A with a caret above
it, you get a caret character followed by an uppercase A (^A).