Dear Mvh Bao,

this is a fairly typical Mac problem which has been addressed in http://aquamacs.org: the Option menu features an entry ("Option, Command, Meta keys") with presets for a number of keyboard layouts - the "bracket" keys will then work as expected. 

Warm regards,
 Stefan


On 22.09.2010, at 11:46, Bao Marianna Nguyen wrote:

> And I have a norwegian keyboard
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> From: Bao Marianna Nguyen <bmarianna@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM
> Subject: where are my brackets?
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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> I have a macbook pro and I use emacs for mac os. The problem is that I can't type in {} or [] whit the usual keys, which is shift+options+8/9. How do I type these characters?
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> Mvh Bao Marianna Nguyen
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> Mvh Bao Marianna Nguyen

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