Alt-Gr-Lock

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Sep 25 12:19:05 EDT 2007


On Sep 25, 2007, at 17:56 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:

> Changes (by Eben):
>
>  As far as I'm aware, alt-gr is used for "translating" the keys to an
>  alternate character set.  It is also possible to lock the keyboard  
> into
>  the alternate character set as well, for typing in another  
> language.  As
>  such, we can't override the arrow keys when locked in the that  
> mode, and
>  it would be confusing to me if the temporary vs. persistent alt-gr  
> modes
>  had different behaviors.

I never saw it described this way, but it makes a lot of sense.

That means the multiply/divide key should actually be an Alt-Gr-Lock  
key. Shouldn't their labels be related then?

- Bert -





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