slightly OT: Re: My single quote key is misbehaving

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Thursday 29 November 2007, Det wrote:

> Well, the 'ß' is missing, the umlauts are composable.

That's true normally.  Ever since I switched to Ubuntu variants, I've had 
magical weird things on AltGr+[letter] that probably aren't supposed to be 
there (they seem to be the same for multiple layouts, like Greek) and there's 
a ß there, as well as number of other unexpected symbols.  I'm not sure if 
that is a bug or a feature.

> Shift plus the '-key on the english keyboard (two to the right from L)
> goes to umlaut-mode, then comes the vowel.
>
> >but not for Portuguese (the various vowels with a tilde would seem to be
> > a deal breaker off the top of my head, but I don't know enough Portuguese
> > to have tried this.)
>
> They are composable too ... AltGr-4 goes to tilde mode, then the vowel a
> or o.

Not here.  AltGr+4 just prints ~ directly.  I have the "Spain (basic)" layout 
loaded, because that's the one I grew up on.

Not that I'm going to lose any sleep over it, since I don't speak Portuguese 
anyway.  (Or enough German to matter.)

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D. Michael McIntyre