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From: ahall@vision.UUCP (Andy Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: International keyboards
Message-ID: <1212@vision.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 90 10:48:34 GMT
Reply-To: ahall@vision.UUCP (Andy Hall)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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On european keyboards some keys have an alternate character associated with
them in addition to the normal shifted characters. This is normally accessed
via an alt key to the right of the spacebar often labelled "Alt Gr". For 
instance on a Danish PC keyboard the 7 key generates:

	unmodified	7 	( seven )
	shifted		/	( slash )
	alt gr'ed       {	( left brace )

Question 1: What should an X server generate for these 3 key combinations ?

Question 2: Assuming the alt gr combination generates "XK_Alt_R down , XK_7 down
" what mechanism is an X client/server meant to use to turn this into a left
brace ? (i.e. should the Alt Gr be another modifier ? )

Question 3: Assuming the Alt Gr key is to be another modifier is there a
standard for which modifier it is ?  and when will there be Xlib support for
this modifier ?

Question 4: Is there a forum discussing internationalisation to which we could
address queries of this kind ?

	Thanks, Merci, Gracias, Danke, Tak