Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
by gpvos on Thursday March 27, 2014 @04:49AM
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This hasn't been true since IBM keyboards became popular. For example, on older keyboards shift+number would simply toggle a bit, so shift+2 would be a double quote, etc., but this hasn't been common for decades now. Unfortunately.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
by chinpokomon on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:59PM
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Probably on the path to scan codes. By using scan codes, they could abstract what a particular key meant and thereby remap the keys so that they didn't have to match the ASCII table layout. I still don't understand why we evolved scan codes the way we did. This requires the OS to be in sync to be able to map them back.