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Subject: Re: strange keyboard behavior. (X11)
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 18:33:28 MET
From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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>
> It seems that didier@aida.org said:
>> I've recently replaced my US keyboard by a french one. since then I'm
>> unable to type use the following keys: ~#{[|`\^@]}
>> these keys are a combination of ALT and a key of the 1234... line.
>
> Put the following in XF86config:
> 
> (etc)

Does this mean that there are hardware differences between US and
French keyboards (apart from the keycaps, of course?).  I know they
have one additional key, but apart from that?  Or did the question
relate to the AltGr bindings?

Greg