Intl keyboard?

Hi,

Is there any way to have multiple keyboard layouts? thanks!

Keyboard layouts can be changed semi-permanently by the *Configure Country command, or on-the-fly by the *Country or *Keyboard commands. For example, *Keyboard Germany would switch to the German keyboard layout.

If you accidentally select the wrong keyboard layout, pressing Alt-Ctrl-F1 will switch you back to the UK layout.

This is explained in some depth in the Programmers Reference Manuals:

• PRM 3-789 explains the *Country command
• PRM 3-791 explains the *Keyboard command
• Table D (Character sets) also goes into alphabets and keyboard layouts. Keyboard shortcuts for switching between keyboard layouts can be found on PRM 4-568.

PRM page numbers are for the “electronic” PRM PDFs, as distributed with RISC OS Pi. If you have the paper PRMs, the page numbers may differ slightly.

Depending on your implementation, you can probably change layout by use of the “International Dial Codes” (which ceased being just dial codes a long time ago):

Alt-Ctrl-F12 Alt-<dialcode>

Codes include 355 for Albania, 86 for China, 972 for Israel, and 71 for DvorakUSA! Dial code support is very build-dependent though. My keyboard drivers expose it through Service_International,272, but most drivers have a few hard-wired and that’s your lot.

Thanks folks, I ve totally forgotten that!
I found that I need to install the proper fonts anyway, as just tried it (greek kbd) and could not see the proper chars, nothing ‘important’ it’s just I managed to unpack old backups that I had from RO3 era and found old documents
IIRC back in time I used my own system fonts with the corrected glyphs
(reading now some threads on this forum about the state of unicode on RISCOS, I see it’s still an issue).