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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:30:47 +0200
From: Marius Gedminas <marius DOT gedminas AT uosis DOT mif DOT vu DOT lt>
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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.2 bug on non-us keyboard layouts
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:34:08PM -0700, Jason Tiller wrote:
> Sounds like you're saying that when uChar.AsciiChar != 0 &&
> dwControlKeyState has both the control (LEFT or RIGHT) and alt (LEFT
> or RIGHT) set, you can be assured the keystroke is generated via AltGr
> and should not be treated as META.  Am I reading that right?

Yes -- on NT.

> *Sounds* good!  Yeah, I think you hinted about that above.  You're
> saying that none of the characters generated via AltGr have their
> ASCII values in the range of 0->31 or 127 (control characters)?

I hope so.  (AFICT, eventually everything depens on the keyboard layout
designer.  That applies to your previous question, too.)

> It might be possible to try to rely on the physical keyboard layout as
> opposed to the primary language, as we do now.

Good idea.  Windows allows one to choose e.g. German layout for the US
English language.

Marius Gedminas
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