1. You must use the numbers on the numeric keypad. If you have a laptop, you need to press NumLock first.
2. There is no specific Alt Gr on U.S. keyboards. However, there is a right Alt key, which operates like the Alt Gr key if you configure for the U.S. International keyboard (which is the way I always set things up). (With Windows XP, I can switch between U.S. International and U.S. English.) Depressing right Alt and the top-row 4 key produces the generic currency symbol (¤). (Using the left Alt key, plus the Ctrl key, plus 4 has the same effect.) Add either Shift key to that equation and you get the British pound sign (£). I note that your encoding was set for Cyrillic Windows. I changed it in this reply to Western European ISO. I avoid Windows encoding schemes out of consideration for those who use Macintoshes. If I need to use Cyrillic, I choose Cyrillic ISO. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Terry Simpson >Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 05:42 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:26609] Re: M$ > > >Bill Potts wrote: >>As you're using an 8-bit encoding scheme for your messages, >>you can enter the actual euro character, € (Alt+0128). > >I have two questions: > >1. If I press the Alt key and let go, it puts me into the menu bar. If I >press and hold the Alt key and then press keys 0,1,2,8 in >succession it does >not type anything. How do you get "Alt+0128" to work? > >2. My keyboard has the euro and the dollar symbols on the 4 key. To get a >euro, I press and hold the Alt Gr key and then press the 4 key. >What happens >on your keyboards in America when you do this? >
