Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard
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Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>
> That sounds like a "minimum keyboard", IOW, one which uses the shift
> key just to set/clear bits in the ASCII code. Old ADM terminals were
> like that. The ADM-1 was, anyway. I don't recall the key now. But
> from looking at the ASCII chart, I suggest you try SHIFT-`
> (that's SHIFT-GRAVE_ACCENT, which may be below the tilde (~) on
> your keyboard). On such keyboards, SHIFT just clears bit 0x20.
>
> Mike
Mike, two comments: 1) You don't need to CC: me, I read the list.
2) I did not write any of the above text. You snipped everything I
wrote without marking it being snipped, but still show my name.
As for the issue at hand, it seems like a simple reassignment of the
keyboard definitions would solve the problem.
If Matthias is only interested in fixing the settings in X, then
dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver will walk him through the settings for X,
including the keyboard setup.
Joe
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