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Comment by creatonez

1 hour ago

How did DOS era software handle this anyways? I can't imagine it would be fun to be a dvorak typist in the DOS era.

DOS has the 'keyb' utility and 'keyboard.sys' to support different layouts, using various code pages.

If you have a CGA card, you're stuck with the code page of the ROM your card came with, which in most cases was code page 437, although a few variants were made.

EGA/VGA had software fonts so other code pages could be loaded.