Solved Confused Over Dos Games

[redm]

@dragu No, unfortunately this didn't help either. There is no difference of just specifying gr.

I wonder though, if the problem is actually somewhere outside dosbox. Just noticed that I can't enter umlauts in ES either... Strangely on the command shell (local and SSH) everything is fine... but I guess I should start another thread for this topic, this one starts to get longish and offtopic...

[Dragu]

@redm
I have no idea why you need "Umlaute", perversion of every language. I have in general swiss-keyboard's because I write text mostly in german or french. So I need both perv. But in Recalbox and gaming, what the hell you want to do with this ?
Instead the display in ssh is the display of the characters that you reach with Alt Gr on the "Umlaute"-keys.
The keyboard function correctly with all other letters if the position in recalbox.conf is filled out

# ------------ F - Language and keyboard ------------ #
## Set the language of the system (fr_FR,en_US,en_GB,de_DE,pt_BR,es_ES,it_IT,eu_ES,tr_TR,zh_CN)
system.language=de_DE
## set the keyboard layout (fr,en,de,us,es)
system.kblayout=de
## Set you local time
## Select your timezone from : ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/ (string)
;system.timezone=Europe/Paris

[redm]

@dragu Hmm, I have to check recalbox.conf, but IIRC I have set the the proper keyboard layout there. Just that I have english as system language. The umlauts are just the most obvious example. This effects a couple more keys, like +/*, '/#, -/_, ´/`, </>, ?/ß, or y and z switched, which you need every now and then. And after all keyboard is something that should be configured once and "just work". Not sure, what you mean with the ssh comment, but as I said with SSH everything is perfect.

[Dragu]

@redm said in Confused Over Dos Games:

IIRC

comment -> command, language switching defect.
I think that IRC is not a recalbox issue, that could be from the terminal side.

[redm]

@dragu IIRC -> if I remember correctly I checked, and keyboard layout is set to "de". I also found that input in ES is ok - for the most part. It's mainly lacking just the umlauts plus the <>| key. Interestingly the umlauts produce symbols like {}... Seems partly german, partly english. Weird.
Anyway, so it looks like there is indeed something wrong with dosbox. More so as I found the same problems under Retropie. Keyboard layouts have alwas been a pain in Linux... I think I'll give up for now...

[Dragu]

@redm

I just looked german keyboard and I compared with my swiss keyboard.

{ } under Alt Gr.

So I agree, is german-swizerland more as a pure german keyboard.
I think just the programmer preferred Toblerone to Ritter Sport.