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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Masking Modified Characters
Message-ID: <9793@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 90 16:27:55 GMT
References: <3903@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <3903@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:

>character was. Is there a standard mask for turning modified characters into
>standard ones, or is there some other hack?

I think you could do something similar to Tech Note 263 (which talks about
detecting command-period in all international systems).  Basically, you
strip off the option modifier and run the raw keycode back through the
keyboard mapping software.



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