[9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]

[Country Joe <countryjoe@myrealbox.com>]

Bonjour list,


Thanks to Andrey at Calgary University, I have Plan 9 installed
on my Asus F7400 laptop with the French keyboard available
at boot time by pressing F5.

Now, while looking at  the file /sys/src/cmd/usb/hid/kbd.c I was
trying to enter the pound sign # while holding Alt Gr key and
pressing the "3" key but it just gave me the character "3".

On a French PC Keyboard certains characters are obtained
by pressing simultaneously the Alt Gr key (right after the space
bar) and the following upper keyboard keys :

        Pressing & holding  Alt Gr

                                        With         Gives        My 
"Translation"
                                           2            ~               Tild
                                           3            #               
Pound Sign
                                           4            {                
Open brace
                                           5            [               
  Open Square Bracket
                                           6            |               
  Pipe sign
                                           7            `            
     Apostophe
                                           8            \               
  Back Slash
                                           9            ^                
Control Character
                                           0            @              
Elephant's Ear
                                           °            ]               
  Closing Square Bracket
                                           +            }               
  Closing brace

Is there any thing that I may do wrong or may do differently for now on
to have all these characters available for modifying the kdb.c file for
example ?


Thanks for any clue.
Philippe
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