Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > "Alt Graphics" is correct. This was a "reserved for future
> > use" key, that MS pressed into service when the Euro currency
> > symbol was invented. (AltGr + 4)
> It's been in use for years in Germany -- the only way to obtain { [ ] } \
~
> | on a standard German computer keyboard. (As well as less common
characters
> such as � � �.)
That must make writing perl quite painful. !-)
I suppose you would get used to it though. AltGr becomes just another shift
key.
> And the euro is AltGr+E in most Microsoft layouts IIRC. (It is in the
German
> layout.) Ah, right: see
> http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm#kbd . The only ones
> who're different are "Greek Latin", "Hungarian", "Irish", "Latvia QWERTY",
> "Polish", "United Kingdom", and "US International", probably because they
> already had something on AltGr+E.
UK layout has AltGr+E = E acute accent. as does AltGr+vowel
I wonder how to get the other accents on a UK keyboard. I know CharMapper
and ALT+nnn do, but that's cheating. ;-)
Ivor.
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