From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200102050559.AAA15442@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] azerty [french] keyboard support
In-Reply-To: <20010204005601.306EE199D7@mail.cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Mon,  5 Feb 2001 00:59:32 -0500
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In article <20010204005601.306EE199D7@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>I remember sitting in a Paris Internet caf being confounded
>by the miserable keyboard, in which everything was UPPER CASE
>and CAPS LOCK was really SHIFT LOCK and the letters were in
>different places and - worst of all - period, comma, semicolon,
>and the other punctuation characters were in screwy places.
>I sympathize.

what, you didn't take your happy hacking keyboard with you?

(Yeah, I'm ignoring the fact that in said Paris Internet
Cafe, you were probably using an OS that expected a French
keyboard....)

	- Dan C.

ps- what keyboards are Bell Labs folks using now, anyways?
I like the HHKB, except that it doesn't have a builtin ``view''
key, and I don't dig on the idea of having to hit ``fn'' to
use the error keys as view....  I thought it would be cool
to map the left alt/meta keys to Alt, and the right alt/meta
keys to up and view, respecticely.  I don't have a machine
up which will take my HHKB right now, though, as my thinkpad
doesn't seem to be able to take an external keyboard.