dual ps2 keyboard

[rususa]

Being in Spain, I'm stuck with the Spanish keyboard for text, since it can do stuff like ñ's, éáú, 3º 4ª, Ç, etc... However, also being a programmer, I'm horribly frustrated by the completely different locations of all the symbols and, for example, to type something like [], I need to hold down some special "Alt Gr" key. My question is: since I'm using a USB mouse, can I plug in an American keyboard into the mouse PS2, and get Windows to recognize it? Any suggestions, comments, ideas, or anything else would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Peter]

No. But you can plug as many USB keyboards as you please. However, Windows will always apply the same language to all keyboards connected, so you'll have to use the keyboard language switching applet nonetheless.

Being stuck with the same problem, I've chosen to use a US keyboard, and type the special characters (German here) with deadkey combinations. If there's a lot of text to be typed in German, I switch to German layout and type on the US keyboard anyhow - if you know how to type, the writing on the keycaps doesn't matter much 😉

Oh, and welcome here! *wanders off, mumbling about manners*

 

[LED]

Peter...I've been thinking of adding a Kana(Japanese keyboard) which layouts in a confusing way, atleast for me...right now I just switch the encoding over to see the language so would that place my keyboard in the same language?

TIA

 

[Peter]

Yes. As I said in a related thread just yesterday, what the keyboards actually DO does not have any language. It's just the keycaps. What keypress yields what character, that's entirely up to the system software.

 

[rususa]

Thanks for the help. I'll probably just end up switching the input language through windows, provided I can remember where everything is 🙂 Thanks for the welcome as well; I'm looking forward to discussing all the PC stuff I can here.