Bug#201737: No # on UK Powerbook keyboard
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:19:41PM +0200, Mark Brown wrote:
> > (I'm at debcamp if you want to examine this directly.)
> I don't recall that we did, but...
No, we didn't unfortunately.
> 1) Do you have an AltGr key? Does it work?
No, so obviously not.
> 3) According to the 4.2.1 gb symbols file, you get a "numbersign" keysym
> by pressing the key that is located where the backslash key is on a
> U.S. keyboard (it's not an ISO-standardized key location, apparently,
> so XFree86 just calls it "<BKSL>".). Again according to the file,
> this key should also be engraved with a tilde, so SHIFT-# should get
> you ~. Is this correct?
No.
> I haven't sorted my pictures from DebCamp/DebConf yet, so I don't know
> if I took a picture of a UK keyboard yet.
The UK Powerbook keyboard is a bit different to a standard UK keyboard
(although perhaps not a UK Apple keyboard).
I also ought to note that there's a dead key on the keyboard - between
the left shift and Z is a key engraved ` with ~ above it which does
nothing. At the top left below ESC and next to 1 is a key with a +-
sign as the shifted character and a § as the unshifted one (kind of a S
with an o through it if it doesn't come through OK).
All the other keys on the keyboard function as expected.
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