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[Bug] Probably a feature - ALTGR and US International Keyboard   [Bug]

By: andreas     Zürich, Switzerland  
Date: Jan 13,2012 at 11:59
In Response to: [Bug] Probably a feature - ALTGR and US International Keyboard (Andrew Watson)

> My friend wanted his father to be able type £ and € and accented French
> characters.
> I found that if he used the US-International keyboard he could type all
> of these chars.
US Intl Layout
see also for other Windows KB layouts

> £ = SHIFT+ALTGR+4
> € = ALTGR+5
AltGr is just the same as (Right)Ctrl+Alt.
ZTW help has a section about AltGr functions for a couple of non English KB layouts.

> Then I noticed that sometimes when I typed the " it didn't work and
> then it entered it twice.
dead key as described in your follow up post

dead keys are completely different/independent of AltGr combos.
the layout I'm using (Swiss German) has dead keys for generating letters with ´`^~¨ accents *and* AltGr combos to access "US characters" like @#|¢[]{} and €.

using those keyboard features is so common for non English speaking users we don't even think about anymore.

greetings, andreas

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