Re: Euro key

From: Scott Courtney (courtney@4th.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 18:07:36 EST

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    On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:53, Alan Horkan wrote:
    > > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:10, Alan Horkan wrote:
    > > > i would have sworn alt+gr 4 worked in Mandrake
    > >
    > > Please pardon the dumb question, but what key is "gr" on most systems?
    >
    > I dont really believe in Dumb questions, just make sure you have made at
    > least some effort to find the answer yourself, at a bare minumum putting
    > the word into your search engine of choice.
    >
    > Many keyboards have two Alt keys
    > the second one/the one on the right is often labelled "Alt Gr", and in
    > certain circumstances it behaves differently to the other Alt. I believe
    > that the Gr is short for Grey*.
    [...]
    > Alt Gr stands for Alt(ernative) Graphic. It was originally, as you
    > correctly say, intended for additional keyboard characters, and many
    > layouts use it for that purpose, with the additional character being
    > shown to the right of the lower character on the key.

    Ahhhh... No wonder I didn't recognize this. I don't have any such key on my
    keyboard. Perhaps this is because I have a laptop with an abbreviated layout.

    In any case, thanks for clearing up the mystery.

    Scott

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