Carleton: Obviously, I should have said left-side Alt button. The fact is that all PCs have two Alt buttons, of which one can have the Alt Gr function (for non-U.S.-English layout choices), whether or not it actually bears the Alt Gr label.
Switching between two keyboard layouts has nothing to do with physical keyboards. It's a standard Windows function. I can switch between U.S. International and U.S. English with a single mouse click. If I chose two other layout options, I could switch between them. The corresponding keys of all national keyboards generate the same make (depress) and break (release) codes. How those codes are interpreted is an operating system keyboard driver (formerly called keyboard BIOS) issue. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 09:20 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22321] Re: questions to Canadians > > >In a message dated Tue, 24 Sep 2002 5:39:43 AM Eastern Standard >Time, "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Carleton wrote: >>Or, when your kids pour the Sprite into your old keyboard, order a new one >>from Dell, the Canadian Bilingual model, �$24.95. �There is an >extra button >>marked "Alt Char". >> >>That's simply the right-side Alt button. It works with other keyboard >>layouts, too. On almost all keyboards other than US, it's labeled "Alt >>Char." >> > >No, there's also an ALT button on the right side. This one lets >you use additional characters, mostly accents plus that thingy >that hangs under the C, which are shown on some of the keycaps >that are also unique to this keyboard. It lets people do >rapid-fire shifting between anglais et francais. > >Carleton >
