RE: [OT] Keyboards (was: American English translation of characte r names)

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 12:44:10 EST

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    Arcane Jill wrote:
    > Yeah, everything's shifted around, I know. But I think we
    > have one extra key, all told, to make room for the GBP
    > currency symbol (£).

    Isn't shat <shift + 3> on the UK keyboard? That's where it is in Italy.

    All non-US keyboard have an extra key on the right hand of the left shift
    key; what that key is used for, depends on locale.

    > They didn't add an extra key for the Euro though. We access that as
    <alt-gr + 4>.

    What OS is it? Most european keyboard I have seen have euro on <AltGr + E>.

    > Guess my <left-shift> is smaller than yours.

    Americans' <left-shift> is bigger than anybody else's. :-)

    _ Marco

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