From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 09:53:52 EST
Oh wow. Well, the range of different keyboard layouts I see around me is
something else! (Especially on laptops).
Now here's something weird. Just about every standard, fully-size,
desktop, (British) QWERTY keyboard I have ever seen, has the legend for
U+00A6 BROKEN BAR as the shifted symbol /printed/ on the key to the
immediate left of Z (with the unshifted symbol being backslash), and the
legend for U+007C VERTICAL LINE as the third symbol /printed/ on the key
to the immediate left of 1 (with the unshifted and shifted symbols being
backquote (U+0060, officially GRAVE ACCENT) and the aforementioned "not
sign" (U+00AC) respectively). Thus, you would expect <shift + backslash>
to yeild BROKEN BAR, and you would expect <alt-gr + backquote> to yield
VERTICAL LINE, because _that's what printed on the keys_.
However, on every keyboard I have tried, these assignments are actually
the other way round! (Anyone else from this part of the world care to
confirm this? Or perhaps explain why?).
Jill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:31 PM
> To: Arcane Jill
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: American English translation of character names
>
>
> On the standard U.S. keyboard, that gesture generates ~.
> If I turn on the U.S.-International keyboard, then RightAlt-\
> gives me the
> NOT SIGN, where \ is the rightmost key in the QWERTYUIOP row.
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