![]() So I started a long research to find out how to fix this and after some research I discovered for both X and console. Then I installed Ubuntu (I guess it was 7.10 by the time) and for my surprise… the key seemed dead until I figured out that Right Control was missing… in fact my slash/question mark key was the right control. The first impression I had when I bought this notebook was: “I guess slashes and question marks aren’t here on normal abnt2 keyboards…” but… Windows came bundled in my laptop and it was already remapped. I guess it is quite common in notebook keyboard to have such unusual layouts as mine (below): I’ll share this tip since it took me some time to figure out this fix. First of all you pick up a keyboard to base your new one (or start from scratch but I suggest picking one as a template) by choosing the “Load Existing Keyboard” option under File menu, then you’ll be presented with a list similar to the one below: With this tool you can even get around the “ missing curly braces limitation” of italian keyboards. Package the resulting keyboard layouts for subsequent delivery and installation.Build keyboard layout DLLs for x86, 圆4, and IA64 platforms.Multilingual input locales within edit control fields. ![]() Modify an existing keyboard layout and build a new layout from it.Create new keyboard layouts from scratch.The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) extends the international functionality of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,and Windows Vista systems by allowing users to: Then I found the solution: The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator Next I tried setting language as portuguese and keyboard as italian (hoping dead keys would work)… another failure… that was time I tried to do the old trick my Lenovo had on Windows ( something similar to what I used on Linux… but the fact is Linux has always dead keys… no matter what keyboard language you are using…) and this could only handle swapping keys but if my keyboard missed dead keys (as it missed at all I would never have dead keys with this trick). Sincerely when I agreed to buy it I didn’t take into consideration that it could come with a rather strange keyboard and we usually tend to think that every keyboard will work as a US_International one… What a mistake.įirst attempt was to map it as an ABNT2 keyboard and blindly type but it wasn’t that good. Recently I bought a second hand Sony netbook that a friend bought on Italy. Looks like I have something against notebooks (or netbooks) with regular keyboards…
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