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Re: [LUG] Keyboards

 

 On 01/11/2011 08:59, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Dan Dart wrote:

Lots of things including ccents appear if you hold Alt Gr and a letter,
cap, number or symbol. See if you can find what you want.

The down-side is that not everyone can display them.

E = MCÂ

Ek = ÂmvÂ

and so on. These might not âlook rightâ to some people though.

And I can't work out why, but some people seem to use this symbol: Â when they mean the appostrophe: '

Ah well. Come back 7-bit ASCII, all is forgiven! (apart from  and â which we sort of need now)

Bother :)

Gordon
I love the fact that the design gurus at Apple made the schoolboy howler of forgetting the # key on iMacs... something they still haven't corrected AFAIK.

Julian

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