US keyboard

Hi.
Does somebody use standard US keyboard (big ‘Enter’ button and ‘Shift’ placed directly to the left of the “Z”) ?
How do you input a backslash and a vertical line? I went through all the combinations already….:(
Running RISC OS Pico on RPi.
Thanks.

Edit: I think I hastened to ask. Maybe, I had to change the layout. Now try.

Press and hold down the Alt key then enter the ASCII code on the numeric key pad, |=124 and \=92.

I believe *Keyboard USA will switch to a US keyboard layout. But I can’t see a corresponding *Configure option for it listed on the wiki, so it looks like the change might be temporary :-( (Although you could add it to an obey file in your boot sequence)

Internationalisation is one of the things we really need to improve at some point!

The closest you have, if you’re not using a boot sequence (e.g. RISC OS Pico) is *Configure Country, but that has the side-effect of also changing the default alphabet, which can be undesirable for some keyboard types. So what !Configure does if you configure a different keyboard layout that way is indeed to insert a *Keyboard command into the boot sequence. Your options are:

• Use !Configure (usually easiest)
• Type *Keyboard USA (might be a problem if the current keyboard is unfamiliar to you, perhaps one of the Dvorak layouts)
• Use the international dialling code trick. This uses the fact that wherever you go in the world, people use Arabic numerals and agree on the telephone number to select a particular country, so will work unambiguously whatever your current keyboard layout is:

1) Press and hold Alt and Ctrl together.
2) Press F12.
3) Release Ctrl.
4) Still holding Alt, type on the numeric keypad the international telephone dialling code for the country you want (eg 1 for USA, 44 for UK, 49 for Germany, 39 for Italy, 33 for France).
5) Release Alt.