Explan me this Z and Y keyboard game thingy

[Yunru]

When i play some old games keyboard keys Z and Y always get mixed up (not every game tho).
This happens only in games....nowhere else. If i try playing in emulator i cant use those 2. (for example)
Or when i try to use some cheat code in strategy game (keysersoze). Most of the time when a game has a conzole i need to always type kezs instead of keys.
Anoying i know. Having this problem since....1995 .


(if i try to switch setting in windows it works araund....for example if i type on windows text documents the Z is Y and the other way araund)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ

So does any1 know how to fix this?

[Tradewind]

probably because QWERTY is more the standard as opposed to QWERTZ...they're not really looking for the actual letter, but usually just pulling the key code...on a QWERTY keyboard the Z would normally be the Y key. So they likely share the same keystroke code.

I doubt there's any way around it...maybe there's some QWERTZ/QWERTY emulation software out there that hooks the keystroke?

[Yunru]

probably because QWERTY is more the standard as opposed to QWERTZ...they're not really looking for the actual letter, but usually just pulling the key code...on a QWERTY keyboard the Z would normally be the Y key. So they likely share the same keystroke code.

I doubt there's any way around it...maybe there's some QWERTZ/QWERTY emulation software out there that hooks the keystroke?

Well in one game i managed to fix this by going under game text document and change the 0 to 1 (and then saving). But not every game has this option.