On Aug 19 17:15, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Corinna Vinschen, le Fri 19 Aug 2011 17:08:41 +0200, a écrit : > > Yes, just like the german one. However, to the best of my knowledge > > there's no printable unicode char which requires to press left-alt on > > any such keyboard layout. > > Yes, but there are shortcuts which use left-alt. > > > That's exactly what the AltGr == right-alt key is for, isn't it? > > For glyphs, yes. > > For instance, alt-e would open an edition menu, while altgr-e prints the > euro symbol.
Sure, but for the shortcuts, the keyboard doesn't generate a valid unicode. I think we're in violent agreement, just using different expressions for it. > > Uh, ok, I see. If you press AltGr on a keyboard layout which does not > > distinguish Alt and AltGr, (english, for instance), the AltGr key only > > emits a RIGHT_ALT_PRESSED control code. > > Ok. > > > On a keyboard layout which does > > distinguish them, the AltGr key emits LEFT_CTRL_PRESSED | RIGHT_ALT_PRESSED. > > Ah. *that* is the part that I was missing :) I had assumed that > RIGHT_ALT meant altgr. So we'll indeed simply simulate control as well, > and it should work correctly. > > Thanks! Glad I could help, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
