Is there some way to program an AltGr key on an ANSI keyboard using a Soarer's Converter or QMK

[apastuszak]

For the most part, I am a Mac user. And I really like Apple's Option key that allows you to type many extra characters such as bullets (•), degree symbols(°). and trademark (™).

On the Windows side, typing ALT plus some 4 character combination on the numpad gets to be annoying.

So I learned that some ISO keyboard have an AltGr key that works kind of like the Option key on the Mac.

Is there some way to program an AltGr key on an ANSI keyboard, or does the keyboard need to be ISO in order to use AltGr?

[fohat]

Looking at the code set in Soarer's docs it looks like "RALT" is the right side ALT key, but I am guessing. Have you tried that one?

[Muirium]

Right Alt is just right Alt. I believe Alt Gr is a national layout thing. You’d need to set the keyboard to US ISO or International English or some such: in the OS. This is not a converter thing.

Not a Windows user myself though so only recalling what I’ve heard others say about this.

[Polecat]

Right Alt is just right Alt. I believe Alt Gr is a national layout thing. You’d need to set the keyboard to US ISO or International English or some such: in the OS. This is not a converter thing.

Not a Windows user myself though so only recalling what I’ve heard others say about this.

Right. In the DOS days it was called a Code Page, which you selected to match your language and keyboard when installing the OS. It's probably called something different now, but the OS needs to recognize the AltGr code as being different than Alt before you can reassign a key to it.