£ (do all nations see the pound sterling sign on the internet?)

Factual Questions
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Not Alt-4, Ctrl-Alt-4. Hardly worth effort for everyday use I know, but it might be useful if you were writing a macro on a keyboard with no Alt Gr key.

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No, Ctrl-Alt-4. This is all news to me, though, and further experimentation reveals that you can use AltGr-vowel or Ctrl-Alt-vowel to get acute accents (except A, for some reason), and Ctrl-Alt-H closes all running programs immediately! The things you learn here…

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Thanks Usram. Sorry, everton, I misread your post.

CTRL-ALT-H, eh? Is there a list of these amazing keyboard commands anywhere?

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Usram: There may be a problem with your keyboard mappings – I get an accented á (and it works with capitals too if you’ve got hands like Chopin).

jjimm: I don’t know about an official list, but here are a few useful suggestions.

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Here’s a full list for Windows 2000. No wonder nobody knows how to use them!

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There is no such thing as “Upper-ASCII”.

You are speaking of proprietary characters sets used on various platforms, these are not ASCII. The euro sign, for example, is a trait of ISO-8859-15.

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Then there’s no reason calling it ASCII. ASCII is a standard (American Standard Code for Information Exchange), not a generic term for the first few characters in a character set. There’s an article at Wikipedia which explains this better. Please visit there before speaking of an “upper-ASCII” again.

UnuMondo