Re: Beginner's questions
Re: Beginner's questions
- Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
- From: Simon Stapleton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:09:38 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
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From: David McCabe <email@hidden>
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To: email@hidden
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What? What kind of keyboard to you have? I've never seen a keyboard
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without square brackets. They are just above and to the left of the
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'return' key in QWERTY.
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On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 02:24 AM, Philippe Magdelenat
wrote:
<some reasonable questions>
I'd guess, from the guy's name, AZERTY (French layout), which has (to
my eyes, at least, a rather wacky layout (for programming - it's very
useful if your natural language has french accents). I often have
the same problem, but sort of in reverse (I find azerty hellish but
often have to use machines with azerty keyboards) and that's
compounded by the fact they're generally windows machines so I can't
carry my own 'board with me and easily flip layouts. Pah.
TWIAVBP[1]
Philippe - it might be worth investing in a qwerty keyboard and
having two keyboard layouts set on your machine (I'd suggest UK as
the euro symbol is easier to get to, I think), but that would mean
flipping between qwerty and azerty, (and probably switching keyboards
as well as selecting layout) which is a pain. Or, if you're the only
one using the machine, going to qwerty full-time (this sucks, I know,
and makes accented characters difficult).
If you select more than one keyboard layout, you'll have a little
flag in the menu bar indicating which one is active
A more general question - is it possible (I've not tried) to have two
usb keyboards attached and have one mapped to a different layout to
the other? I'd guess not.
Simon
[1] For those not au fait with the mores of alt.folklore.urban, 'The
World Is A Very Big Place'
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