# Charcode for different keyboard layouts

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**Created:** [August 30, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/charcode-for-different-keyboard-layouts/331564 "2013-08-30T20:11:25Z")\
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Not sure if this is doable, but I thought I would ask to see if anyone could help me out

I’ve created a custom font for the users of my program to use. They input certain characters from this font by using the shift + number keys.  
so for eg, shift+2 = characterX

I track their inputs by using String.fromCharCode(X)  
characterX= String.fromCharCode(33)  
characterY= String.fromCharCode(34)  
characterZ= String.fromCharCode(163)  
this works fine on UK keyboards as the layout of characters for shift+1-3 is !"£

however on a US keyboard shift+1-3 is !@#  
so that needs  
characterX= String.fromCharCode(33)  
characterY= String.fromCharCode(64)  
characterZ= String.fromCharCode(35)

I cant use the @ and # as they are used elsewhere for other characters

is there anyway to force flash to use CharCode(163) when the user presses shift+3 no matter what language they are using??