Kernel Extensions and Device Support Programming Concepts

Accented Characters

Here are the valid sets of characters for each of the diacritics that the Low Function Terminal (LFT) subsystem uses to validate the two-key nonspacing character sequence.

List of Diacritics Supported by the HFT LFT Subsystem

There are seven diacritic characters for which sets of characters are provided:

Valid Sets of Characters (Categorized by Diacritics)

The following are acute function code values:

Acute Function	Code Value
Acute accent	0xef
Apostrophe (acute)	0x27
e Acute small	0x82
e Acute capital	0x90
a Acute small	0xa0
i Acute small	0xa1
o Acute small	0xa2
u Acute small	0xa3
a Acute capital	0xb5
i Acute capital	0xd6
y Acute small	0xec
y Acute capital	0xed
o Acute capital	0xe0
u Acute capital	0xe9

The following are grave function code values:

Grave Function	Code Value
Grave accent	0x60
a Grave small	0x85
e Grave small	0x8a
i Grave small	0x8d
o Grave small	0x95
u Grave small	0x97
a Grave capital	0xb7
e Grave capital	0xd4
i Grave capital	0xde
o Grave capital	0xe3
u Grave capital	0xeb

The following are circumflex function code values:

Circumflex Function	Code Value
^ Circumflex accent	0x5e
a Circumflex small	0x83
e Circumflex small	0x88
i Circumflex small	0x8c
o Circumflex small	0x93
u Circumflex small	0x96
a Circumflex capital	0xb6
e Circumflex capital	0xd2
i Circumflex capital	0xd7
o Circumflex capital	0xe2
u Circumflex capital	0xea

The following are umlaut function code values:

Umlaut Function	Code Value
Umlaut accent	0xf9
u Umlaut small	0x81
a Umlaut small	0x84
e Umlaut small	0x89
i Umlaut small	0x8b
a Umlaut capital	0x8e
O Umlaut capital	0x99
u Umlaut capital	0x9a
e Umlaut capital	0xd3
i Umlaut capital	0xd8

The following are tilde function code values:

Tilde Function	Code Value
Tilde accent	0x7e
n Tilde small	0xa4
n Tilde capital	0xa5
a Tilde small	0xc6
a Tilde capital	0xc7
o Tilde small	0xe4
o Tilde capital	0xe5
Overcircle Function	Code Value
Overcircle accent	0x7d
a Overcircle small	0x86
a Overcircle capital	0x8f
Cedilla Function	Code Value
Cedilla accent	0xf7
c Cedilla capital	0x80
c Cedilla small	0x87