Microsoft KB Archive/11254

No Nonbreaking Hyphen with Foreign Keyboard Configuration

PSS ID Number: Q11254 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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MS-DOS

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If the DOS German (KEYBGR), French (KEYBFR), or Italian (KEYBIT) keyboard-configuration commands are running, Word cannot produce a nonbreaking hyphen when you press CTRL+HYPHEN.

The keyboard location of the hyphen character changes from its normal position when an international keyboard configuration is installed. Word detects the CTRL+HYPHEN by looking at the full-keyboard scan code/ASCII code. When the original-location HYPHEN key is pressed after the keyboard driver is installed, the wrong ASCII value is returned. When the new-location HYPHEN key is pressed, the wrong scan code is returned.

Microsoft has no plans to resolve this problem because the localized versions of Word work properly with their respective keyboard drivers.

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