A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING STANDARD KEYBOARD SCAN CODES INTO MULTILINGUAL UNICODE OUTPUT (LIPI-CON)

摘要

The present invention provides a multilingual alphanumeric Unicode generator - attachable or integrally unified unit on the keyboard hardware, that converts the keyboard scan codes into a multilingual Unicode-Standard complaint output without requiring any change in the background functionality of the standard keyboard. The system comprises a scan code converter connected externally to the keyboard and the Operating System (OS)/application of the computing system. The scan code converter receives scan code signals from the keyboard and user inputs such as desired language, OS, and keyboard type from the user. The scan code converter remaps the scan code signals of the keyboard with a user selected language appropriate Unicode output. Finally, the scan code converter sends the Unicode output to the OS/application of the computing system which displays the text on the computer screen. FIG.1