Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

["Matthias Brennwald (bwm)" <matthias.brennwald@nagra.ch>]

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best 
> > to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc).
> >
> > I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G4. I 
> > managed to setup my (external/USB) Apple keyboard with a Swiss-German 
> > keymap. However, I could not figure out how to produce an '@' symbol... 
> > in Mac OS X I press 'Option-g' to type an '@', but that does not work in 
> > Linux / Debian. Any hints?
>
> Umm, did you try the obvious one?
>
> SHIFT-2 (the 2 above the qwerty keys)?

Yes, I did. On the Apple keyboard, Shift-2 is mapped to something else 
than '@' (propably '"', but I am not sure because at the moment I'm in 
my office in front of a PC, while the Mac rests at home). Shift-2 
therefore does not give an '@', but rather the symbol that is written on 
the Apple keyboard. I also tried Option-2 and other 'number keys' with 
the Option modifier etc., but that did not work, too (this either 
produce no symbol at all or something else than an '@').

Matthias

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