More Keystroke Problems on OS-X

[Tim Boudreau pointed me to this newsgroup; the original posting was in 
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Hi all,

there exists another serious problem with keystrokes under OS-X: I cannot 
produce some of the characters required for programming. I am using a 
German keyboard on a PowerBook G4 and find that some key combinations are 
not working inside Net Beans / Sun Studio 5:


key|normal mapping|Sun Studio
===+==============+==========
  { | OPT-8	  |CTRL-OPT-8
  } | OPT-9	  |CTRL-OPT-9
  | | OPT-7	  |CTRL-OPT-7
  \ | OPT-SHIFT-7  |FNCT-OPT-0
  [ | OPT-5	  |???
  ] | OPT-6	  |???
  @ | OPT-L	  |???
  € | OPT-E	  |???	(OK, won't need that for programming...)

With 'OPT' I mean the button on the left hand side of the keyboard, next to 
the Apple-key, labelled "alt" in tiny writing and showing half a bathtub.


In addition to the problem of /producing/ the characters, there is the 
question of /mapping/ the characters to the key caps. In case of the '@', 
for instance, there is a nice drawing on the key, so I would like the key 
combination to procuce that character to have something to do with that.

The other way round: if there was a visual key-mapping feature, I could 
COPY-PASTE a '@' character into the dialog and map it to OPT-L.

Any ideas?


	Sebastian