-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 21:35, Paul wrote: > Op Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:06:50 +0000 schreef Anne Wilson: > >- From time to time, though, it is necessary to insert words from > >other languages, so acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut and that > >Spanish thingy that I can never remember the name for - the various > >chars that use them come in very handy. I used to refresh my > >memory from a printed table, according to the language I would be > >quoting. I wonder if your '£' is the same as alt163? For that > >matter, how did you get the symbol into this message, as well as > >the code? If I type '£' into either text editor or kword I > >just get the literal string. > > Which keyboard setting do you use now?
UK British > I always use US international > since I often have to write in german or french also. With that it is > very simple to use the accented letters like á, ö and ñ. Just type > the accent and the letter after that. > I have not figured out yet where the UK pound sign is though, which > would be convenient for you, I assume. > My choice of keyboard layout goes way back to my first PC in 1987. US keyboard layouts did not have a UK£ sign - to teletext you had to use PDS IIRC. The only way you'd get it on a US keyboard layout would be by using ASCII codes. I presume it would be there, somewhere. I haven't spent any time googling, but someone must have a complete list of ASCII codes. It's just a matter of learning how we can incorporate them into documents. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB2cKhkFAvMr/nNX8RAk86AKCAwmxwQFD9zDPAicnrJpEszN+OxgCeO93i dhUTcRbuTydxfFriVo7L2Cc= =ZNOe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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