Re: [ILUG] RE: Irish characters, Fadas, accents, international symbols etc.

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Mon 15 Apr 2002 - 15:46:15 IST


On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:23:27 +0100
Niall O Broin <niall at domain linux.ie> blurted in message
20020415162327.C2901 at domain bagend.makalumedia.com:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 03:21:11PM +0200, David Neary wrote:
>
> > The magic to do so in X is to put
> > xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = Multi_key"
> > in the two files ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc (one is for when you
> > log in through *dm and the other is for startx).
>
> This is all very well but what are those of us who have keyboards to which
> we have deep attachments and which are probably older than some members of
> the ILUG :-) and hence have no AltGr key supposed to do ?
>
curious.. every single old keyboard I met had AltGr. It's the new ones that
don't in my experience.

(And a lot of keyboards for the UK/US market have forgotten what AltGr is
for... and just call it ALT instead. Heathens. High? thee hither to a
country with more characters..)

L.

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