In order to support data entry for EU countries that use characters in the extended ASCII range the following changes were made to the Virtual Keyboard in the XL.

1. The Back key was moved to its traditional location next to the += key. In its place an AltGr key was added. EU keyboards use this key to switch between the traditional standard (Latin) characters and the extended characters used in their languages.
2. When Russian is selected, the Radio buttons, Russian and English are still present for backwards usability. However, for all other languages they are replaced with buttons with the text Standard and Extended.
3. Both the Radio Buttons and the AltGr button will switch back and forth between the Standard and Extended character sets.
4. To avoid creating a new keyboard layout for each language, the EurKey Keyboard Layout is used when displaying the Extended character sets, with the exception of the Russian language. It uses the Windows 1521 keyboard layout.
5. With the exception of Russian, we use the ASCII code page 1252 for our fonts. For any characters present on the EurKey layout but not in the 1252 code page font, the standard Latin character is displayed instead. There were a small handful of symbols that fell into this category.