> Not all keyboards have AltGr labeled as such, actually. I haven't
> seen one labeled that that was made in the last 20 years, with the
> exception of one laptop.

Apparently that's country specific. I've never seen a German keyboard
*without* an AltGr key.

> As it turns out, MacBooks don't have an
> AltGr at all. Instead, they only have Apple and Return. This is an
> interesting problem, which seems to boil down to a hardware
> limitation, though there really ought to be some way around it since
> it's obviously a problem.

Yes, it is. However, it would be easy to solve, since the key I called
"the strange key" (apparently it is meant to be the old "ENTER" in
addition (!) to the big RETURN key) could easily be used as AltGr. This
wouldn't irritate anyone since appart from a symbol that is crpytic to
me and that I have never noticed anywhere else before, there is nothing
printed on it. So it probably wouldn't irritate anyone to put AltGr on
it, and it would be quite in the position where the average German user
would expect it to be.

> Perhaps a .Xmodmap file remapping that
> Return key to AltGr could work, but I don't know .Xmodmap syntax to do
> it.

I agree, but I wouldn't know how to do it either. You think it is
correct to link this into pommed anyway?

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