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blake murphy[_2_]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:18:07 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
Pope) wrote:

>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

or for windows, i think you could use the alt + numeric keypad trick.
(alt + numeric 130 = é, for example.) there's a page with characters
and the codes he

<http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html>

since linux and mac users are special people, they have another
system.

your pal,
blake