In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ari Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:24PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> As far as I know most keyboards don't have an AltGr key.. > >In North America that's probably correct (what would they do with it?) >but it's essential with European languages with the possible exception of >British English.
Well, in the Netherlands almost everyone uses a US keyboard. I don't think I can remember when I last saw a Dutch keyboard, if ever. If I need a é or an ë, which are about the only accented characters we use, I use the compose key. Which isn't on the keyboard either, so it's application dependant. In vim it's ctrl-k. That kind of sucks. Is there a standard compose key in X? [clickety click trying out all kinds of keys combo's] Wait, on my 104-key kbd the right windows key acts as a compose key! Hmm, I can compose almost any accented character with it, except, ofcourse, a Euro symbol .. would have expected that under e= but it doesn't work. My head hurts .. Mike.