Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

                                                     ◄Up► ◄Next► ◄Previous►
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
WORD GetKBCodePage(void)
 
The GetKBCodePage function identifies which OEM/ANSI translation table and
code page the keyboard driver is using.
 
Return Value
 
The return value is the current code page in the AX register. The code page
indicates which OEM/ANSI translation-table file is loaded.
 
Comments
 
The export ordinal for this function is 132.
 
The following lists the possible code pages and corresponding OEM/ANSI
translation-table files.
 
Value  Meaning and Filename
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
437    Default (U.S., most countries. No OEMANSI.BIN file)
 
860    Portugal (XLATPO.BIN)
 
863    French Canada (XLATCA.BIN)
 
865    Norway/Denmark (XLATNO.BIN)
 
850    International code page (XLAT850.BIN)
 
If the OEMANSI.BIN setting in the [Keyboard] section of the SYSTEM.INI file
specifies an OEMANSI translation-table file, the keyboard driver loads the
file and sets the code page to the specified code page.
 
Because code page 437 is the default, if the OEMANSI.BIN setting is blank,
the keyboard driver uses the default translation table and code page. For
most drivers, the default code page is 437.
 
                                      ♦