special caracters on german keyboard

[Robert Persson]

> I have YDL on serveral machines her at school, all with german  
> keyboards. In Linux there is a difference between the left and the  right 
> "Alt" key! The left key is simply "Alt" but the right one is  "AltGr", 
> which will give you the desired characters.

Should this work with a US keyboard as well to get all those weird 
characters that Americans don't use?  My right alt/option key on my adb 
keyboard behaves just like the left-hand one.

Robert