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Re: Keyboard layout


Thank you very much. I'll try.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Danilo Turina" <danilo.turina@alcatel.it>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Keyboard layout


> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lorenzo Travaglio wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >>How about the keyboard layout?
>  >>On my 103 key, Italian style, it is not possible to found braces even
> if on
>  >>Window they are placed over square brackets and are activated with
>  >>Alt-Shift-{left,right}bracket.
>
> This is a known "problem", at the moment I use a US-EN keyboard so I
> don't have this kind of problems, anyway sometime ago I had a notebook
> with an italian keyboard.
>
> In order to have characters like "{", "}" (but also "`" that is vital
> for shell commands) I had to use xmodmap.
>
> If you use search Google for italian+keyboard+xmodmap you should find
> everything you need.
>
>
>  > Where are those keys on the italian keyboard? I've tried with the
> windows
>  > layout and could not produce any symbol with alt-shift-8 (assuming you
>  > mean this with bracket)
>
> In an italian keyboard at the right of the "P" key instead of the
> "["/"{" and "]"/"}" keys that you usually find in US/EN keyboards you
> have accented letters. Within Windows (try the nodepad) you can always
> produce "{" and "}" characters by pressing "Alt Gr" + one of the above
keys.
>
>  >
>  > bye
>  > ago
>
> Bye,
>
> Danilo
>
>
>


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