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To use the shortcut, turn on NumLock / Fn, and make sure the cursor is flashing where you want the symbol to go. Press and hold the alt key, and then press numbers. You don’t need to press the ...
The traditional Canadian French keyboard from IBM must use an ISO keyboard. The French guillemets located on the extra key are needed to type proper French, they are not optional. A dvorak version (traditional Canadian french layout) is also supported by Microsoft Windows. In this keyboard, the key names are translated to French:
AltGr key. The AltGr key is the first key to the right of the space bar. AltGr (also Alt Graph) is a modifier key found on many computer keyboards (rather than a second Alt key found on US keyboards). It is primarily used to type special characters and symbols that are not widely used in the territory where sold, such as foreign currency ...
QWERTY (/ ˈkwɜːrti / KWUR-tee) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: Q W E R T Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874.
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: This article has a bad plan and presents information in disarray (for instance, the Belgian keyboard is oddly mentioned in Section “History”, facts about acute accents and tilde are found in Section “Grave accent”, and basic description of AZERTY is located very late in the article, in ...
Microsoft Windows users can type an "é" by pressing Alt+1 3 0 or Alt+0 2 3 3 on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "É" can be typed by pressing Alt+1 4 4 or Alt+0 2 0 1. On US International and UK English keyboard layouts, users can type the acute accent letter "é" by typing AltGR+E.
On a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system, many special characters that have decimal equivalent codepoint numbers below 256 can be typed in by using the keyboard's Alt+decimal equivalent code numbers keys. For example, the character é (Small e with acute accent, HTML entity code é) can be obtained by pressing Alt+1 3 0.
On Windows computers with US keyboard mapping, letters with acute accents can be created by holding down the alt key and typing in a three-number code on the number pad to the right of the keyboard before releasing the Alt key. Before the appearance of Spanish keyboards, Spanish speakers had to learn these codes if they wanted to be able to ...