PuTTY semi-bug mapvirtualkeyex

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summary: Trouble with MapVirtualKeyEx in Korean Win98
class: semi-bug: This might or might not be a bug, depending on your precise definition of what a bug is.
difficulty: taxing: Needs external things we don't have (standards, users etc)
priority: historic: This is an old bug report that we think is either fixed without noticing, or confined to old systems, or too vague.

It is claimed that MapVirtualKeyEx and ToAsciiEx don't work in
Korean Win98 (although they're fine in other Korean Windows
products). Apparently in this version of Windows, MapVirtualKey and
ToAscii work fine.

It would certainly be easy enough to create a version of PuTTY that
used the non-Ex variants of the functions, which should then work on
Korean Win98. But ideally I'd like PuTTY to automatically detect
whatever the bug is, and switch between the two pairs of functions
as a result of this detection. If anyone knows how to do this, that
would be useful.

Priority is low, because as far as I can tell this is really a bug
in Korean Win98 and it shouldn't have to be PuTTY's job to work
round it.

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this bug as historic. It was specific to
Win98 as far as we know, so long obsolete.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)