# and what the heck is a "¬"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 8, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-what-the-heck-is-a/206261 "2003-10-08T10:00:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-what-the-heck-is-a/206261/21 "2003-10-14T12:24:40Z")

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word 2000 (9.0.44.02 SR-1)  
wordpad/notepad v5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 3)  
msn messenger 4.6.0082

and so on and so forth. If I need a tilde in an URL (or in a post here) I have to type ~ and then space, at least when the next character is ‘tildeable’, like ã ñ õ…

Maybe it depends on the keyboard…

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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-what-the-heck-is-a/206261/22 "2003-10-14T12:31:30Z")

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Yup, it does. If I switch input locale to US English in the keyboard settings in control panel I just get the characters. When I can find them.

(here’s a link to scandinavian keyboard layouts)

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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-what-the-heck-is-a/206261/23 "2003-10-14T12:37:31Z")

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Eh, here’s the link: [http://www.macromedia.com/support/fontographer/ts/documents/scanda.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/fontographer/ts/documents/scanda.htm)

And if you search for ‘typing accents’ on the net you’ll find out how to configure windows to accept this type of input from american keyboards as well.

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