I keep seeing references to software compatibility with different keyboard layouts. This seems to be to be an obvious effort to sell a certain product. Perhaps it is ignorance. I have never found any software that did work just as well with the right-handed Dvorak as with the Qwerty. It is possible that someone would write software that looked to the scan code to determine some action. That would cause a problem. You don't want software that breaks a cardinal rule. If it had to be done in some highly special software then you could switch to Qwerty in a few seconds. When one of my students used the scan code for some decision I threatened to pull his plug! Lord knows what Bill Gates would do!
I know of no software that fails to work with my keyboard.
I have most of the software worth having. It all works fine. To get a keystroke software uses an interrupt that returns the ascii character of the key struck in a register, usually the low byte of AX. That ascii character determines the next action. Yes/No is often the question. The software has no idea where that ascii character came from and doesn't care. The code is something like compare AL to "N". If it is equal then jump to somewhere.
Don't Buy The Software Compatibility Scare!
