PlaneShift

Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Caarrie on July 24, 2008, 09:12:26 pm

Title: anyone have a azerty keyboard?
Post by: Caarrie on July 24, 2008, 09:12:26 pm

In reading the players guide i came across this:

Quote from: Players Guide

Q:   
I can't type the @ for my username in the game!

A:   
For those using AZERTY keyboards who are unable to type the @ character, try Alt + Ctrl + 2. If it fails, go to the PlaneShift directory and open 'planeshift.cfg'. Edit the line that looks like "Planeshift.Connection.User = m_y@email.blah" to include your email address.

Can anyone confirm for me if this is still an issue or not? If not an issue i would like to remove this with confidence from the guide.

Title: Re: anyone have a azerty keyboard?
Post by: Zan on July 24, 2008, 09:59:15 pm

This is no longer an issue. Azerty keyboard owners can type @ without problems now.

Title: Re: anyone have a azerty keyboard?
Post by: Caarrie on July 24, 2008, 10:07:41 pm

Thanks for the reply i will edit that out of the new guide.

Title: Re: anyone have a azerty keyboard?
Post by: Raa on July 25, 2008, 01:08:32 am

What's an AZERTY keyboard?

Title: Re: anyone have a azerty keyboard?
Post by: Zwenze on July 25, 2008, 01:33:01 am

Keyboard layouts are called after the first 6 letters in the top row. US layout is referred as QWERTY, german layout as QWERTZ and french or belgium layouts as AZERTY.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ

Keyboard layouts were designed to avoid the hammers of mechanical typewriters getting stuck. And to have all letters of the word typewriter in the top line as marketing gag  :o . But that makes them suboptimal for computer keyboards. Therefore people have made other layouts like DVORAK. But those never found widely usage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

Here is a geeky web comic introducing in the topic of keyboard layouts
http://www.dvzine.org/