How to Have Accelerator Keys Support Japanese and US Keyboards

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows version 3.1

Japanese characters (Hiragana and Katakana characters) can be used as accelerators under Japanese Windows when a Japanese keyboard is present.

To support a Hiragana or Katakana accelerator as well as the usual English character accelerator in an Windows application, use the flags \36 and \37 in the RC file. Place the \36 flag in front of the English character, and place the \37 flag in front of the Hiragana or Katakana character.

For example, say you want the accelerator key for "File(&F)" to be 'F' on the 101 keyboard and to be the Katakana 'FU' ( 0x8374), which is the first Katakana character of "file" in Japanese, on the Japanese keyboard. To do this, include the following in the RC file:

   POPUP "File(\36F\37FU)"
   BEGIN
   ...
   END