Patch submission for AltGr handling

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 28 01:43:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:39:36PM -0800, Jason Tiller wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > Actually, I have no problems with having both ALT keys generate a
> > meta.  I would rather not add to the plethora of CYGWIN options if
> > we can help it.
> [...]
> from the changes to B19 in the FAQ:
> 
>    Alt Gr-key behavior has been changed in this release. The left
>    alt-key still produces ESC-key sequence. The right alt (Alt Gr)-key
>    now produces characters according to national keyboard layouts.
> 
> I think if you simply reverted AltGr to Meta again, international
> users would be stuck having to make their own patches (as they did in
> the past, I seem to recall reading) to generate shell characters.
> 
> If I've summarized this issue incorrectly, I hope some international
> users will pipe up!

Yes, here! Right-Alt is essential on many international keyboards
to get characters like {[]}\|~@ (<-german keyboard). The corresponding
keys on the american keyboards are used for native umlaut characters.
Don't go back to US only behaviour.

Corinna

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