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RE: Patch submission for AltGr handling
- To: 'Gunnar Degnbol' <degnbol at danbbs dot dk>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: Patch submission for AltGr handling
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:58:00 +0100
Hi Gunnar,
did you ever succeed to generate NUL (Ctrl+'@' = Ctrl+AltGr@ =
Ctrl+AltGr+'Q')
or the default Telnet Break (Ctrl+'\' = Ctrl+AltGr\ = Ctrl+AltGr+'\') on a
German
keyboard (where Ctrl key is actually labeled Strg)?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnar Degnbol [SMTP:degnbol@danbbs.dk]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 18:15
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Patch submission for AltGr handling
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> In most programs ctrl+alt works exactly the same as altgr on international
>
> keyboards. Ctrl+alt+'2' and altgr+'2' gives me '@'. See the doc for
> VkKeyScan(). bash is different. ctrl+alt does not produce any special
> characters, except for ctrl+alt+'¨' which gives '~', which is a dead key
> and thus can't be killed by Cygwin. It is the same key as the ']' key on
> US
> keyboards. I think ctrl+META should work mostly ok, otherwise somebody
> would have noticed.
>
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