Hello, @sylvester-bullitt, @alan-kilborn and All,
Alan, good question ;-)) Personally, my old NEC 350 laptop does not have a numeric keypad. So, I’ve got an USB usual keyboard ( 105 keys ) plugged permanently to the laptop !
When the Caps Lock key is set, my laptop’s French keyboard looks like, below :
1234567890°+
AZERTYUIOP^£
QSDFGHJKLM%
>WXCVBN?./§
And if I want to use the pseudo-numeric keypad, I just hit the Num Lock key and the keyboard is then changed as below :
123456789*°+
AZERTY456-^£
QSDFGH123+%
>WXCVBN0../
So :
The keys 7890 are mapped to keys 789*
The keys UIOP are mapped to keys 456-
The keys JKLM are mapped to keys 123+
The keys ?/§ are mapped to keys 0./
As the A, B, C, D, E and F keys are mapped to their default, I’m always able, even without any additional keyboard (in case of travel, for instance), to use, in conjunction with the Alt key, all the Input methods, described in my previous post ;-))
Unfortunately, I don’t use any new mini-laptop, with a special keyboard layout, so I cannot tell anything else about this subject :-((. Even the laptop of my wife has a physical keypad !
So, I’m sorry : without material, it’s impossible for me to give pertinent clues about the way to handle these Windows Input methods with atypical keyboard configurations !
Best Regards,
guy038
