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> you can fix that yourself

I can't and neither can you.

You can't go back in time and tell them that they shouldn't use Alt+Ctrl for any of the built-in shortcuts.

You also can't get rid of those shortcuts.

You also can't finalize that UI Events spec and just land those features in Chromium.

They could have gotten rid of those shortcuts, but they decided against it.

Anyhow, Chrome 51+ (current stable is 52) does support the required part of the spec now.

https://jsfiddle.net/1zhcpj8a/

I do get:

  Alt AltLeft
  AltGraph AltRight
Which means you can now easily and accurately tell if AltGr was pressed. This release of Atom could have fixed it.
While open-source is nice, if an editor doesn't support my keyboard I would just pick a different editor instead of patching core functionality in. It's not like there's a shortage of editors that let you use non-US keyboards.
"Can" implies both ability (e.g. Javascript programming) and time to delve into the internals to find the issue, go through the procedure of submitting a patch etc, which is not a given the parent has, whether Atom is "collaborative" or not.