Re: Changing keyboard symbols
- From: John Coode <faecius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:51:03 +0100
Wayne Mason wrote:
I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there, it has anIn MS Word, at least, you can get a £ symbol by typing
American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have to use the
character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm back in
England.
How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when I press it?
Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the correct answer as an
American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout are different
and that would mess up everything.
a3 followed by ALT+x (don't type the + of course). A3 is the hex
Unicode value for the £ symbol. This trick will work for any
symbol in the Character Map. The Unicode values can be found
by hovering the cursor over the character in the map.
This page
http://www.starr.net/is/type/intlchart.html
shows that you can make the £ sign generally available
by switching your keyboard layout to US International
English which gives you the £ symbol as an option on the 4/$ key
by using SHIFT+right ALT+4. This would have the advantage of
keeping your basic US keyboard layout. The link to Penn State
gives full instructions on installing the layout on XP but they
are not exactly what I saw in my XP Home laptop. Also it was
difficult to make the US International layout stick. This problem
can usually be solved by deleting all other layouts in Regional
and Language Options.
.
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