Windows Behavior - ALT + Number

[Florian Sievert]

Hi,

>>I am programming since years under Windows and (please don't ask) I
>>teached myself to don't use the normal keys for "{[]}". Instead I was
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>I don't have a direct answer for you (I am also interested in the answer 
>actually).  But since the days of the Commodore PET that I started on, I have 
>trained myself to the US keyboard, despite the fact I am in the UK and have a 
>differently marked keyboard accordingly (it wants to use the pound currency 
>sign on shift-4 instead of $.... I'm British: no Strings/EnvVars please).  
>For every machine that I use, I tell it to use the US layout.  In this way I 
>am sure I will have all the important characters for the lingua franca.
>  
>
In fact your problem even sounds more difficult than mine, because 
basically I can reach every sign on the keyboard (and the euro currenvy 
sign is on a complete diffrent key), but I personally think it is easier 
to write the some characters over the num block. My knowledge about 
linux is to less to get an good "attack point" for this issue. I thought 
about that there must be some point in the system to map keys. For 
example, for rebooting using STRG+ALT+DEL. I thought about to add here 
something like "if user press ALT+91, write an [ on the screen". But I 
guess even if I would succed, it only would working in the console 
itself, possibly not in most other text programs and also not on the x 
server. But I am still hoping someone has an ultimate solution for this 
issue ;)

thx,
Florian