Re: Keyboard entry on PCs

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 13:58:36 EDT


Doug Ewell scripsit:

> 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.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        jcowan@reutershealth.com
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There are
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they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit



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