Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad List FAQ - foreign keyboards

I have a generic solution:

Install MSKLC (requires NET 2.0) from Microsoft.
This is a keyboard editor. You can load the current keyboard
(and other keyboard layouts with the extension .klc) and print
out the layout. The program gives you three formats,
one of which is similar to the 600E and most other Thinkpad
keyboards, but all formats have that extra key between the Z
and the small left shift key. That one just has to be ignored
by the user.

keyboards.jargon-file.org has several interesting custom
layouts, including one enhanced 101-key layout for Latin
American Spanish, including a useful pair of keys not found in
the Microsoft 102-key layout.

>I'm looking for a photo or diagram of:
>
>02K4799 Spanish (Latin American) keyboard for the Thinkpad 600,
>600E, 600X.
>
>--I could find nothing about foreign keyboards at Thinkwiki.
>--There was a list of part numbers but no diagrams at Lenovo.
>--Neither the hardware maintenance manual nor the user guide for
>the 600E, downloadable from Lenovo, had a keyboard diagram,
>even of the default EN-us keyboard.
>
>Various vendors claim to sell this item, but I didn't find any
>with a picture.
>
>Wikipedia does have a diagram for a generic Spanish (Latin
>American) keyboard, but ...
>--The diagram has errors ( two keys which are accent keys are
>coloured as if they were normal keys );
>--The Thinkpad keyboard has a different layout. Most
>importantly, the key which shows as being to the lower left of
>the Enter key is actually above the Enter key on the 600.
>Also, there are no Windows keys on the 600.
>--I'd like to see the various keys such as PrtSc, Home, PgDn
>in their proper place with their proper labelling in Spanish.
>
>The reason I want this is to make a 600E with an English
>keyboard understandable to a Spanish-only speaker in Mexico.
>
>

-- 
happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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