Mapping US-English Keyboard keys to Turkish
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27
I wrote about Delphi, IBX and the Turkish I problem about a year and a half ago. Back then, I could use a US-English system to reproduce the problem. This time, I had a problem on a Turkish system running an embedded version of Windows with hardly any UI tools available (especially no Windows Explorer).
Luckily, I had the command prompt, but it looked like this:
X:\>mode con codepage
Status for device CON:
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Code page: 857
X:\>mode con codepage select 437
Invalid parameter - select
X:\>mode con codepage select=437
Invalid parameter - select
Status for device CON:
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Lines: 300
Columns: 120
Keyboard rate: 31
Keyboard delay: 1
Code page: 437
X:\>
I tried the [WayBack] modecommand to change from [WayBack] code page 857(Turkish) to [WayBack] code page 437(IBM PC or OEM-US) which is the default on US-English systems, but that did not change the keyboard locale, not even for the command prompt.
Already the above statement needed a mapping for the = character, so I now clearly need a more complete way of doing this.
Mapping of US-English to QWERTY Turkish Q-keyboard
I found out most Turkish systems are based on the [WayBack] QWERTY Turkish Q-keyboard as opposed to the [WayBack] Turkish F-keyboard layout (which would require a much larger mapping):
Turkish Q-keyboard layout
Turkish F-keyboard layout
United States keyboard layout
US-International keyboard layout (Windows)
The below conversion table is far from complete, for now it consists of the keys I needed back then. The above layouts will help me to extend it further when I need it:
Character needed Turkish key combination US-English keys combination US-English character on keyboard Unicode point Unicode description =Shift–0Shift–0=:Shift–.Shift–/?\AltGr–*AltGr–-¥U+00A5YEN SIGN/Shift–7Shift–7'$AltGr–4AltGr–4¤U+00A4CURRENCY SIGN
–jeroen
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