Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script

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Re: Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script

Post by richmond62 » Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:46 pm

This is the stumbling block on the road to complete cross-platform compatibility.

Whackypedia has a marvellously confusing article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key

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Re: Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script

Post by glenn9 » Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:01 pm

Thanks Richmond.... more than I ever wanted to know about the 'Alt Gr' key... infact, I think I'm beginning to feel quite jaundiced towards the 'Alt Gr' key, especially as it seems to be overshadowing the much nicer and useful (in my case) 'Alt' key......!

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Re: Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script

Post by richmond62 » Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:28 pm

I am sorry, I should have reported this:

LC for Windows running in WINE returns this:

ALT: 65513

ALT GR: 65513

different from Linux (when you go to bed get out your juju beads and chant the mantra "om, cross platform"
to yourself 108 times: it will do b*gger all for your soul, but . . .) :D

Here's a 'sexy' picture to throw you straight into Nirvana:
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