BabelFish: Curly braces in Italian keymap

[kervinck]

From personal correspondence:

As requested here's a summary for a quick test on the keyboard italian layout. I've attached a picture. The red circled keys don't work, but I presume not so useful (or not in original ASCII table). Special characters like ' ~ ' (alt+126) or ' ` ' (alt+96) are not reachable with these combinations and other tries.

The curly brackets don't work too. The most common (official, so to say) way to get them is ' shift+altGr+[ ' (and ' altGr+[ ' to get square brackets, that work!), and sometimes ' shift+crtl+alt+[ ', (again ' crtl+alt+[ ' to get square brackets only, but this doesn't work neither for square brackets here).

All other keys, using shift too, are ok!

Molte grazie to Patrick Verre for testing

[kervinck]

So these lines need attention in Utils/BabelFish/PS2.ino

  {             +IT    +ALTGR, 0x4e,  96 }, // '`'

  {       +DE   +IT    +ALTGR, 0x3d, 123 }, // '{'

  {       +DE   +IT    +ALTGR, 0x45, 125 }, // '}'

  {             +IT    +ALTGR, 0x55, 126 }, // '~'

[kervinck]

Backquote (`) is needed to type the ∏-character in Micro-Soft BASIC...

[kervinck]

TAB works, as tested with this one-liner:

Also,

The combination for curly braces (shift+altGr+[) gives 91 and 93 that are the square brackets and just these are actually typed again for this ('curly') combination too !

Looking in PS2.ino, we have these as well:

  {       +DE   +IT    +ALTGR, 0x3e,  91 }, // '['
  {             +IT+ES +ALTGR, 0x54,  91 },

  {       +DE   +IT    +ALTGR, 0x46,  93 }, // ']'
  {             +IT+ES +ALTGR, 0x5b,  93 },

So there isn't an accidental match.

The issue with '{' and '}' seems simply that BabelFish isn't prepared to recognise Shift+AltGr+Key....

[kervinck]

Mystery solved:

• AltGr+= gives right curly }
• AltGr+7 gives left curly {
• AltGr+^ gives tilde ~
• AltGr+' gives backquote`