On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:17, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Ben Reser wrote: > > > Yeah well US keyboards don't even have a <Alt Graph> key. > > My bottom row is: > > Ctrl Win Alt Space Alt Win Menu Ctrl > > Your rightmost Alt key will be interpreted as AltGr when a keyboard > mapping is installed that supports it. > > It's actually quite easy to create accented characters, also on a US > keyboard, by setting the keyboard to US International. Keys like ` " and , > will then act as "dead keys" so when you type them they will not appear on > screen immedeately, but only after a following character has been typed. > If that character can have the accent that's indicated by the dead key > then the accented character is displayed.
Haha. Now THIS is an odd bug. Alt-Gr *does* act like this on my British keyboard, but it doesn't recognise the British keyboard layout. On British keyboards, the " character is shift-2, not shift-<the key two to the right of L>. That key, on British keyboards, produces ' and @. But if I want a U umlaut, I have to do <ALT GR> <'> <u>, not <ALT GR> <2> <u>. That is, for this purpose, my keyboard acts as if it was a US keyboard, not a British keyboard. How odd! Anyone know where the bug is in this case? -- adamw
