Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > What exactly is ISO_Level3_Shift?
>
> I use it to obtain additional symbols, I map it to the left "Alt" key
> (which I don't map to Alt of course), that's how MacOS obtains the
> |,{,},etc... on intl keyboards (read: non-us).
>
> It sort-of is the "new" way to do it instead of switching groups with
> Mode_switch. A bunch of intl keymaps are supposed to use it nowadays, I
> suspect AltGr will be defined as that in the future.
Something related to xkb has changed in recent debian-patched Xfree releases
as well as in Xorg 6.8.1+ that made necessary to apply the patch I mentioned
to Emacs.
> > > That is, I can't obtain the symbols that are normally obtained with an
> > > ISO_Level3_Shift + key combo. Emacs "interprets" it apparently as
> > > Meta-key.
> >
> > When did this bug first show up? We applied a patch recently which
> > was related to xkb map. It has not been applied to XEmacs yet.
>
> Ah, could be ! I think it didn't happen before my upgrade a few days
> ago, but then, I'm also just switching from xemacs to emacs so it's a
> bit difficult to say. I suppose I could be emacs myself without the
> patch to confirm that, but I would need some help I suppose, as I've
> never been close to trying to build that monster before :)
The patch was introduced in 21.3+1-8. Could you please grab 21.3+1-7
from snapshot.debian.net and tell us if it changes anything?
That said, I suspect you could have to change your settings for this
new compliance. Unfortunately, I have zero knowledge about xkb but the
originator of the said patch might help us.
Cheers,
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Jérôme Marant
