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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