blake murphy > wrote:

>On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:17:55 +0200, Steve Y >
>wrote:

>>No such thing as a European keyboard, there are many variants depending
>>on the version of whatever language is spoken in the country.

>>(typed on his AZERTY)

>the azerty keyboard is not part of god's great plan.

One thing I do before traveling to Europe or Asia is I create
a webpage that has text containing non-alpha characters that
might occur in things like usernames and passwords that I
need for logging onto various systems/sites. Then,
when I encounter a keyboard that is apparently missing these
characters, I can cut/paste them.

Even the @ character is missing from some keyboards; I dunno
how you're expected to send email without that one
(other than hitting "reply").

Before I got into the practice of forming such a webpage,
I was sometimes reduced to cruising the web until I randomly
see the characters I needed.

Steve