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Re: Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:46 pm
by richmond62
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
Re: Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:01 pm
by glenn9
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......!
Re: Windows users - 'Alt' key - unexpected responses in script
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:28 pm
by richmond62
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 . . .)
Here's a 'sexy' picture to throw you straight into Nirvana:
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