John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote: >> AltGr on the PC corresponds to ISO 9995 Level 3, as Option does on the >> Mac, so you would use AltGr for this purpose. Keyboards that don't have >> an AltGr key (all keyboards in North America, for instance) can use >> Ctrl+Alt [...]. > > Eh? When I'm using the US-International keyboard, which I do when > I want to type in the full Latin-1 range, the left Alt key remains > Alt, and the right Alt key becomes AltGr, no need for Alt+Ctrl. > The fact that the keycap doesn't *say* AltGr is not relevant.
Yes, of course you are right. "Having an AltGr key" is all about the keyboard driver, not how the key is marked. I tend to avoid the US-International keyboard that comes with Windows because of the intrusive dead-key behavior attached to the apostrophe and quotation-mark keys. You have to type an extra space before vowels and spaces *but not before other letters* to get the expected single- and double-quote behavior. Personally, I'd rather type AltGr+key to get the combining diacritic and leave the unshifted keys alone. (Maybe I'd better start investigating those keyboard-building tools.) -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
