Re: What does the Alt Gr key do?

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From: Leif Nordmand Andersen <lna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 04:20:55 +0200

Hi Jones,

On Mon, 30 May 2005 06:25:12 +0100, "Jones" <jones@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello,
>I am wondering what does the Alt Gr key do on my keyboard in relation to
>windows xp? Does have any short cut use?

Well some of us are NOT americans (I know it's hard to believe, but
the good God actually has created others too!), we don't have such a
limited alfabet, so to access the extra letters, we have three letters
on some places on the keyboard like the key:

4
shift-4 is ¤
alt-grp-4 is $

Other keys have similar 3 different functions.

Regards from Wonderful Copenhagen!!

Leif.

.

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- What does the Alt Gr key do?
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