X keyboards & international characters

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, Collins Richey, wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:38:25 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 31 May 2003 09:29:47 -0600
> > Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 1. Where do you find a description about the exact meaning of
> > > "PC101","PC104", "pickakeyboard layout", etc. ?  
> > 
> > pc104 will work fine
> 
> Yeah, it works fine, but what does it really mean?  What's the real 
> difference between PC101, PC104, etc.?  And how can you tell which
> you've got?

Count the number of keys. ;-)

> > > 2. Where do you find the meaning of cryptic keycode descriptors like
> > > "AltGr-" ?
> > 
> > On a Spanish keyboard, that's the right alt key (not sure on others) 
> > 
> > as for meaning??? don?t understand the question.
> 
> The question is, where is there a list of key names with corresponding
> definitions?  I can guess that with Alt in the name, it has something to
> do with one of the Alt keys, but what is the Gr- portion of the symbolic
> name?  You, for example, use <AltGr> but I also see this written as
> <AltGr->.

Means the same thing, I suspect. That is, <AltGr-> means "press and hold
the AltGr key" while pressing another key. Thus, AltGr-c means "press
and hold 'AltGr' and then press 'c'". Alternatively, AltGr-c is the same
as AltGr+c. Get it?

> In my case, no app seems to recognize any of the methods of generating
> international characters that we have discussed thus far.

Hm. 

Kurt
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