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I'm using the United States International keyboard layout, so pressing ' and then o should make an accented ó in Microsoft Windows 10.
The problem is that I'm using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and it doesn't have an Alt Gr and it doesn't have a numerical keypad.
Any ideas if there's a way to type the pound sign (£) on this keyboard?
This is the layout:
pupeno
Posted 2018-08-28T16:20:36.140
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On the US-International keyboard under Windows, if you have two Alt keys, the right one gets remapped to AltGr. If you don’t, using Ctrl+Alt provides the same functionality - that is, to enter ß, you would use AltGr+s, or Ctrl+Alt+s.
For the pound-sterling sign £, one would type AltGr+Shift+4, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+4.
Jeff Zeitlin
Posted 2018-08-28T16:20:36.140
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1+1 This answer is more succinct and clear than my pecking in the dark… Which worked! But still. – JakeGould – 2018-08-28T16:58:18.643
1@JakeGould - I routinely use the US-INT keyboard because I do a fair amount of multilingual document processing - so I didn't have to hunt and peck; it was something I had known for the years that I'd been doing it. FWIW, it seems to be consistent across Windows and Linux; I have a Mint install in a VM with the US-INT layout selected, and it seems to work the same. – Jeff Zeitlin – 2018-08-28T17:05:12.913
Well, you deserve the answer then. Great work! – JakeGould – 2018-08-28T17:14:45.837
1I was familiar with AltGr, but I didn't know ctrl+alt = altgr. – pupeno – 2018-08-28T18:21:01.600
@JeffZeitlin: I use a customized version of US-INT which allows the ASCII grave, apostrophe, tilde, quote, and caret characters to be typed without annoying dead-key behavior. Add Alt+GR to those keys to get dead keys. I have no idea why MS makes keyboard customization such a pain. – supercat – 2018-08-28T21:22:03.687
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Not a Windows person, but knowing that many modern OS’s now accommodate for easier entry of non-common (aka: “International”) characters with (relatively) simple key combinations.
My first suggestion would be to try some of the “usual” alt-character keys (Shift, Alt and Ctrl) mixed with the $ key and see if that produces a £ (pound symbol). Like this first try with the Ctrl key:
Ctrl+$
Or try just the Alt key like this:
Alt+$
Then try adding Shift to the combo like this:
Shift+Ctrl+$
And finally, try adding Alt to the mix like this:
Alt+Shift+Ctrl+$
JakeGould
Posted 2018-08-28T16:20:36.140
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2@JakeGould: ctrl-alt-shift-$ did it: £. Do you want to add it as an answer? – pupeno – 2018-08-28T16:31:58.790
2Answer added! Happy to help! If you found my answer helpful, please be sure to upvote it. And if it is the answer that ultimately is the answer, please be sure to check it off as such. – JakeGould – 2018-08-28T16:49:07.763
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On Windows
– phuclv – 2018-08-28T17:09:16.310AltGris equivalent toCtrl+Alt1@phuclv - ...as I said in my answer here below... – Jeff Zeitlin – 2018-08-28T17:30:21.333
@pupeno Jeff deserves the answer. Mine is just lucky guessing. – JakeGould – 2018-08-28T17:33:25.130