Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
When I press AltGr+e I get € (Euro sign). When I press Alt+Ctrl+e I get... nothing. So it doesn't SEEM to be the same anyway.
Perhaps you have a customized keyboard of some kind? That Alt-Ctrl is equivalent to AltGr is an old keyboard standard. On any machine that I’ve used which had AltGr enabled and characters that it could access, the characters could also be accessed by Ctrl–Left-Alt. But one can set up a keyboard in which the Kana shift key is assigned to the right-Alt key and the characters duplicate those which would normally be assigned to Ctrl-Alt.
See http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/default.aspx for discussion of Ctrl-Alt.
It is because of this convention that it is generally recommended that application developers do not use Ctrl-Alt modifiers in their programs (but some do anyway, particularly English-speaking US developers who don’t know any better and don’t have a clue about the AltGr key). That is also why OpenOffice.org does not use Ctrl-Alt in any of its assigned keyboard functions and does not allow users to assign functions to Ctrl-Alt combinations. Remember “fool-proof” means “inaccessible to the user”.
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