This is part of Family API which allow to create dual-os version of program runs under OS/2 and DOS

Note: This is legacy API call. It is recommended to use 32-bit equivalent

KbdSetCp

This call allows the process to set the code page used to translate key strokes received from the keyboard.

Syntax

KbdSetCp (Reserved, CodePageID, KbdHandle)

Parameters

Reserved (USHORT) - input: Reserved and must be set to zero.

CodePageID (USHORT) - input: CodePageID represents a code-page ID in the application's data area. The code-page ID must be equivalent to one of the code-page IDs specified on the CONFIG.SYS CODEPAGE = statement or 0000. If the code-page ID does not match one of the IDs on the CODEPAGE = statement, an error results.

The code-page word must have one of these code-page identifiers:

Identifier	Description
0	Resident code page
437	IBM PC US 437
850	Multilingual
860	Portuguese
863	Canadian-French
865	Nordic

KbdHandle (HKBD) - input : Default keyboard or the logical keyboard.

Return Code

rc (USHORT) - return:Return code descriptions are:

0 NO_ERROR

439 ERROR_KBD_INVALID_HANDLE

445 ERROR_KBD_FOCUS_REQUIRED

447 ERROR_KBD_KEYBOARD_BUSY

448 ERROR_KBD_INVALID_CODEPAGE

464 ERROR_KBD_DETACHED

504 ERROR_KBD_EXTENDED_SG

Remarks

Keyboard code page support is not available without the DEVINFO=KBD statement in the CONFIG.SYS file. Refer to IBM Operating System/2 Standard Edition Version 1.2 Using Advanced Features for a complete description of CODEPAGE and DEVINFO.

Bindings

C

#define INCL_KBD USHORT rc = KbdSetCp(Reserved, CodePageID, KbdHandle); USHORT Reserved; /* Reserved (must be zero) */ USHORT CodePageID; /* code page ID */ HKBD KbdHandle; /* Keyboard handle */ USHORT rc; /* return code */

MASM

EXTRN KbdSetCp:FAR INCL_KBD EQU 1 PUSH WORD Reserved ;Reserved (must be zero) PUSH WORD CodePageID ;code page ID PUSH WORD KbdHandle ;Keyboard handle CALL KbdSetCp Returns WORD