Disable Character enter via Alt+Key_Code

[boles]

I have a windows application that I am working on that has a failure I am trying to troubleshoot. The problem is that users are entering French characters into the application and this is causing a problem in the backend. The users are entering chars such as 'è' by pressing Alt+0232.

My problem is that I cannot modify the application code and must handle this at the OS level. Anyone know how to possibly re-map ALT+0232 to another char such as an ordinary 'e' ???

 

[fs5]

and what happens if they cut/paste?

 

[imported_Phil]

Not modifying the code is the worst thing you could possibly do.

One day, just when you think everything's fine, some French kid is going to tap in the world's longest Alt+?? combination and crash everything FOREVER.

Then your manager will make you his bitch.

Oh, and wrong forum.

 

[talyn00]

use some regular expressions to validate input

 

[hevnsnt]

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[boles]

Originally posted by: fs5
and what happens if they cut/paste?

They cant because we override explorer as the shell and have a custom app. They will not have access to copy from anywhere.

Not modifying the code is the worst thing you could possibly do.

One day, just when you think everything's fine, some French kid is going to tap in the world's longest Alt+?? combination and crash everything FOREVER.

Then your manager will make you his bitch.

Oh, and wrong forum.

I didnt want to get into this but, we could modify the code but we dont want to. Main reason being that this would have impacts on the other 50+ applications that run in the system and we cannot regression test all of it in the current time frame.

So my question still stands.


Sorry for the wrong forum......

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

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