Re: italian and german keyboards

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have an iBook and a PowerBook with an italian keyboard. Keys with
> > have 3 symbols each.
> > I need to type certain keys with the "right-something" key combination
> > (altgr on PC) or similar.
> > Some of these keys are crucial: @, #, [] and to a lesser extent €.
>
> Just from my old emails in 2017 I sent to this list, and I can't verify it
> works, because I don't have Debian installed any more to this machine,
> so:
> On a Powerbook 3.5 (Titanium IV) I might have set up the alt_gr key like so:
>
> in
> /etc/default/keyboard
> a line something like
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:enter_switch"
>
> ??
>
> .. not being sure, but somewhere in the thread the following message
> is part of I mentioned that I tried to change

That crap in the last two lines is embarrassing, it actually should say
something like:

" .. the following URL is part of the thread where I earlier asked for
a working"

> /etc/default/keyboard
> to get the alt_gr behavior on a Macintosh.
>
> Here's the "success" message:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/12/msg00024.html

Sorry guys!

Regards
Wolfgang