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Adam K³obukowski pí¹e v Èt 31. 03. 2005 v 23:03 +0200:
> The basic idea is, that on lowest level, all keys on Atari keyboard are 
> the same (maybe with exception of Caps Lock, but I'm unsure of that), 

CapsLock is no exception in this regard.

> ie, on lov level there is no difference wether we push SHIFT or R or F1 
> or UNDO.
> 
> My idea is to return rather scancodes then ascii codes. Not raw 
> scancodes - it should be inteligent enough to send the same code for 
> (for example) Z key, no matter what keyboard (German, UK, US) is used.

This doesn't sound like a good idea to me.  You'll want to stick with
pure scancodes and to provide a function for conversion from scancode to
ASCII code...

> 3. btw. is there an asci code for Help or Undo?

I don't think so.

Petr