Re: Encoding of double quotes by Vim

On Aug 5, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> On my (Belgian) keyboard, I said, " is AltGr+v and " is AltGr+b. IOW, to get " I hold down AltGr (but not Shift) while pressing and releasing v, to get " I hold down AltGr (but not Shift) while pressing and releasing b. Your keyboard may or may not have an AltGr key; on mine, it's the key immediately to the right of the space bar, and AltGr is printed on it. I suppose that on some other keyboards the key at the same position is named "the right Alt key". I've been told (but I don't know for sure) that on keyboards without an AltGr key you get the same effect by using both Ctrl and Alt modifiers together.
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> Just for fun (and for the RTFM effect), I looked up AltGr on Wikipedia, and found it; maybe the page would interest you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr
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> The fact that there is no obvious relationship between " and v, " and b, makes me believe that the same "special key combination" could quite possibly give the same result in many other "national keyboards" (especially since V and B are in the same locations on all three of AZERTY, QWERTZ and QWERTY keyboard arrangements).

Thanks for the explanation, Tony. The wikipedia article says that on a mac---US keyboard I take it---the option key functions the way AltGr does.

When I do Option+v and Option+b I get, respectively, √ and ∫. When I do Shift+Option+v and +b I get ◊ and ı.

When I do Ctrl+Option+v and +b I get <Right> and ^B respectively.

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