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German PC Keyboard Map

Version: 1.2 By: Dirk Steins E-mail: dsteins@ibm.net Web page: Available Release Date: Available Now	Info Last Modified: 9/30/98 Requires BeOS version: R4 PPC, R3 PPC, R3 Intel License: Freeware Cost: 0 Source Available?: Yes
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This is a complete german keyboard map which maps 
the keyboard identical to a PC running under DOS or Windows for 
a standard 102 key PC keyboard on a BeBox or for BeOS R3 Intel.
That means Alt-Gr (and not Ctrl) is used for {[]}~|@, and the
missing key for greater and lower and pipe is also working. Even
dead keys work correctly, not like the maps provided by Be, so 
now you can type in a tilde (see: ~) and a ^. Much better for 
programming ;-) 
If you wanna use this map with a 105 key keyboard with the 
Windows 95 keys you should probably edit the file and adapt the 
first block with the command key usage.
It would be nice if Be would include this map into future versions 
of BeOS and if Be would fix the Keymap application so that every 
key would be displayed, not only the US style 101 keys.
I made this map since the Be provided German and German-latin1 
maps are completely insufficient. The German-latin1 map is not 
so bad, but for a PC user they are both unacceptable.
Changes in 1.01: On the numeric keypad two rows were swapped. It was 
the mapping of a telephone, not that of a keyboard. That error was 
also in the original map provided by Be. Now this map should be 
perfect. ;-)
Changes in 1.2: Added support for the Euro symbol. The mapping is 
AltGr-E, as suggested by the european community. You need some fonts 
with this symbol in it to use this. Microsoft has some fonts with the 
euro symbol on their site (and they are free).

Hopefully Be will include this map now in R4, since IMO the maps 
provided by Be suck really hard on a BeBox and a Intel PC under BeOS. 

Bugs: On startup NumLock should be on, but despite the fact that only 
NumLock stands in the source, BeOS turns also ScrollLock on. Donīt ask 
me why, looks like a bug in the keymap application.

Usage: keymap -l <german_pc.map

Mirror Download Sites:

Mirror Name	R3-PPC	R3-Intel	R4-PPC
Be Europe Mirror	PPC	Intel	PPC
Austria Mirror	PPC	Intel	PPC
Australia Mirror	PPC	Intel	PPC
Germany Mirror (UUNet)	PPC	Intel	PPC
Japan Mirror #1	PPC	Intel	PPC
Japan Mirror #2 (Nagoya)	PPC	Intel	PPC
UK Mirror	PPC	Intel	PPC
US Mirror #1 (UIUC)	PPC	Intel	PPC
US Mirror #2 (cdrom.com)	PPC	Intel	PPC