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To use alt key codes for keyboard shortcut symbols you’ll need to have this enabled. If you’re using a laptop, your number pad is probably integrated to save space. No problem!
United Kingdom version of Apple keyboard. The British version of the Apple Keyboard does not use the standard UK layout. Instead, some older versions have the US layout (see below) with a few differences: the £ sign is reached by ⇧ Shift+3 and the § sign by ⌥ Option+3, the opposite to the US layout.
This model of the Apple keyboard also has two down-stream USB 2.0 ports, one at each end of the keyboard (like M2452 and M7803). This model was renamed as the 'Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad' after the release of the A1242 model in March 2009. This model was discontinued on 5 June 2017 and was the last wired keyboard produced by Apple. [26]
This did not work for characters not in the Windows Code Page (such as box-drawing characters). The new Alt+0### combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "Windows code pages." [a] For example, Alt+ 0 1 6 3 yields the character £ (symbol for the pound sterling) which is at 163 in CP1252. [2] [b]
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.
The Alt key on an Apple keyboard. Since the 1990s, Alt has been printed on the Option key on most Mac keyboards. As of 2017, the newest Apple keyboards do not contain the Alt label. Alt is used in non-Mac software, such as non-macOS Unix and Windows programs, but in macOS it is always referred to as the Option key.
IBM states that AltGr is an abbreviation for alternate graphic. [3] [4]Sun Microsystems keyboard, which labels the key as Alt Graph. A key labelled with some variation of "Alt Graphic" was on many computer keyboards before the Windows international layouts.
It is not found as a separate key in the modern Japanese 106/109-key keyboard layout. On the Common Building Block (CBB) Keyboard for Notebooks, as many 106/109-key keyboards, the Kanji key is located on the Half-width/Full-width key, and needs the key ALT. It is found as a separate key on the IBM PS/55 5576-001 keyboard.