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AIX Version 4 Keyboard Technical Reference

United States English Keyboard Translate Table

The AIX Version 4 NLS subsystem supports two Code Sets for United States English. These Code Sets are the PC Code Set IBM-850 and the Code Set ISO8859-1, which is the industry standard. The two columns in the translate tables identify both the IBM-850 and ISO8859-1 code points for the key positions. The code points are the same for the ASCII characters since ASCII is a subset of the IBM-850 and ISO8859-1 Code Sets.

The following sections of the United States English keyboard translate table contain the keyboard information for the United States English keyboard. The keyboard table:

To find out the position number of one or more of the keyboard keys, see "Key Position Codes and Scan Codes for Keyboards" .

For more detailed information about the abbreviations, characters, and headings used in this table, see: