2008/4/4, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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?
I don't know and I only tried it on one of my keyboards, which is a wired one with some extra keys for the usual stuff, like E-Mail, Search and so on. If I turn it upside down there is a label saying "This device comlies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't seem to have anything with this subject to do anyway. J.R. 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". > > Jim Allan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
