Norwegian letters troublemakers?

[Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen]

Espen K wrote:
> 
> I have encountered a rather bothering "feature" using kdevelop with my
> norwegian keyboard:
> This is the kind of problem that typically are featured on top of any
> FAQ-page, but I have searched both the kdevelop site and docs to find a solution
> to this one, but not succeeded:
> 
> The  "search for help on"-window pops up whenever I press any of my non-US
> letters (norwegian spes. letters: æøå)!  It only happends when I try to type
> them in low-case. Upper case works as expected.
> 
> I have tried to (re)define
> keyboardshortcuts to this window, but - ironically - it does not help.
> 
> So, what should I do to prevent this from happening?
> 
> ("Å" is to the right of the "P", and "Ø" and "Æ" are to the right of the "L"
> on the keyboard. I don't know what kind of keys are featured there on your
> american keyboards...) .

On Norwegian keyboards the Æ key is the key where ; and : are situated
on American keyboards. Ø is where ' and " are found, and most annyoingly
Å is taking the place of [ and { which moves those under 7890 on a
Norwegian keyboard, making it impossible to use touch to program, hence
we use American keyboards at work.

(On the Amiga, you could use left- (and right-) amiga to get [ and
left-amiga+shift to get { and likewise for ] and }, thus you could
program in touch and keep your Norwegian characters.

I just map Æ Ø Å to F6 through F8, and curse whoever is in charge for
the bastardised norwegian keyboards being sold with current computers;
as well as the fact that under windows you have to use Alt-gr _which is
only on the WRONG side_ of the keyboard for touch typists like myself.

Why the fuck doesn't that ever get through?????

-- 
Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen
Sales Support and System Development
Metaphor Systems as