Quote Originally Posted by John Ludlow View Post
That's interesting. I've often wondered how they sort that when not making the effort (and going to the expense) of making the software deliberately 'omni-national'. Ditto keyboards since I know that they are different to handle the additional characters. I would have thought that the OS would just interpret whatever keycode is sent from the keyboard. So, in a similar way that you can arrange to make your English keyboard be Dvorak, I thought the French keyboard would just send additional keycodes for the accents that the English (American) one does not. The extended ASCII set handles French. It's odd that they would cause problems. But, of course, we only have one kind for sale here in spite of the growing portion of the shadow population now that primarily speaks Spanish. So, I've never actually had to encounter it (nor wanted to).
Interestingly, today my missus unboxed a QWERTY keyboard for her Surface...Buuuuut, it is a German language keyboard....so it's goin back!