# How do I make a € on my Memorex keyboard? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695 "2003-10-21T14:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/1 "2003-10-21T14:17:29Z")
My Memorex MX2750 keyboard has a € key on it. The “5” key has the % sign above the five, and the € to the right of the five. I’ve tried using both shift keys seperately and together (got the %), the ALT key (TYO Rik, “Pa-_thetic!_” – my error sound), the Windows key (5), the esc key (5). What else can I try? 1. How do I access the € on the “5” key? 2. What is the ASCII code (ALT+???) for €? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/2 "2003-10-21T14:27:00Z")
AltGr-5 or Ctrl-Alt-5 should work on your keyboard. Alt-0128 is the code, although it can’t be ASCII since that scheme predates the euro. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/3 "2003-10-21T14:40:39Z")
CTRL+ALT+5 does not work. What’s the “Gr” key? (ALT+0128 works. Thanks.) ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/4 "2003-10-21T14:48:47Z")
Just out of curiosity, how did you type the OP?😕 😕 ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/5 "2003-10-21T14:54:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fat Bald Guy \* > \*\*Just out of curiosity, how did you type the OP?😕 😕 \*\* Sorry for the “me too” post, but I was really wondering the same… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/6 "2003-10-21T14:55:09Z")
Cut’n’paste. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/7 "2003-10-21T14:57:04Z")
“ALT GR” should be the key to the right of your spacebar. When come back bring €. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/8 "2003-10-21T15:05:14Z")
> [@](#): > > “ALT GR” should be the key to the right of your spacebar. There’s another ALT key to the right of my spacebar. I get the error sound when I use it, just as I do when I use the left ALT key. To the right of the right ALT key there is another Windows key. To the right of that, there is something that looks like a filing cabinet or a representation of a web page. Using it brings up a box that controls the browser (Back, Reload, View Source, etc.). The last key on the right is the other CRTL key. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/9 "2003-10-21T15:11:23Z")
Maybe ALT-GR is speficially European or just archaic. Someone explained what it means the other day, but I can’t search on it. BTW, I suggest you to refer to euros as “yoyos”, like many people are starting to do in Ireland now. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/10 "2003-10-21T15:12:46Z")
“specifically” I’m using a new keyboard today; that’s my excuse. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/11 "2003-10-21T15:13:51Z")
There are several issues involved. One is getting your keyboard to generate the right code. Another is getting your OS to display the right symbol when it sees that code. Another is getting the different applications to correctly display and process the code. And you can never be certain what someone else’s computer will do with that code. Mostly you need to download patches to get things to work for you. I am running WIN98SE on this computer and I remember installing some patch or other. Now I can hit ALTGR (The right hand ALT key) + 5 and I get the € Euro symbol. [http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&qu=euro+symbol&view=en-us](http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&qu=euro+symbol&view=en-us) [http://www.eu.microsoft.com/windows/euro.mspx](http://www.eu.microsoft.com/windows/euro.mspx) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/12 "2003-10-21T15:19:11Z")
Aha! I’m on Win98. I’ll check out the links later. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/13 "2003-10-22T02:11:37Z")
The summary, from Microsoft: > [@](#): > > To select the alternate keyboards you want to use in Windows 98 > > 1. In the Keyboard option in Control Panel, click the Language tab. > 2. To add another keyboard, click Add. > 3. In the Add Language dialog box, select the alternate keyboard that you want to install, and then click OK. The layout you want is “US-International”. After you do this, you’ll get a blue icon in your system tray that says EN. Right click on that to switch back and forth between US-International and English-US. US-International lets Windows use the AltGr key to access alternate characters on your keyboard. It also changes the **`** , **~** , **'** , **"** , and **^** keys so you can type áççèñtëð characters easily. To do that, you just hit one of those keys and then another letter and you get ä or ê or whatever. To get the accent character alone, hit the key and the spacebar. To see the characters available with the AltGr key, see [here](http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdusx.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/14 "2003-10-22T02:15:45Z")
Thanks, **Bambi**. I haven’t downloaded the patch yet, but I’ll follow your instructions when I do. ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-a-on-my-memorex-keyboard/208695/15 "2003-10-22T04:49:57Z")
I can help you with the “any” key when you’re ready to post that one…