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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!amigans!acheron!alien
- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: The A1200 is an CBM upgrade module!)
- Message-ID: <alien.00rp@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:06:21 GMT+12
- References: <1992Nov1.182827.10009@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <1992Nov03.003727.8277@microsoft.com> <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> <1992Nov04.123557.27349@NeoSoft.com>
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- Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ
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- In article <1992Nov04.123557.27349@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- >> Hey! For the first time ever I have seen a pound sign on my Sun
- >> screen.
- >
- >He hit รบ (alt-shift-3 in the standard keymap on the Amiga).
- >
- >Hey, there's a product enhancement. Put the alt-key mappings for the standard
- >keymap on the keytops.
-
- Great idea! Are you listening, Commodore? :-)
-
- But which keymap gives you a pound sign on Alt-Shift-3? On my machine
- it's Alt-L, and I thought I was using the standard keymap. It's a recent
- A2000 (ECS & 2.05) and I'm not loading any disk keymap in my startup-sequence,
- just using the default ROM keymap. This might be a national difference --
- the Alt-Shift-3 might be for the British keymap. Here in New Zealand we use
- the same keymap as the Americans (at least I assume we still do -- back when
- I had a WB1.3 A500, I used the USA1 keymap, and the alt-key mappings were
- the same as they are now).
-
- I've never seen the alt-key mappings documented anywhere; I discovered that
- they existed by accident and mapped them myself. For anyone who doesn't
- know (and who uses the same keymap), some of the important ones go like
- this...
-
- Alt-1/2/3 ... Superscript 1/2/3
- Alt-9/0 ... Left/right double angle brackets (Euro-quotes)
- Alt-E ... Copyright symbol
- Alt-L ... Pound sign
- Alt-R ... Registered trademark symbol
- Alt-U ... Greek "mu"
- Alt-Shift-X ... Division sign
- Alt-Shift-Y ... Japanese yen sign
- Alt-Z ... Plus-or-minus sign
-
- ... and plenty of others (all of the extended 8-bit ASCII character set is
- available).
-
-
- --
- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
- "Sir, trust me. My whole case hinges on
- proving you're a dork." (Kryten, "Red Dwarf")
-
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