Things are different here...

[Parker, Ron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Erickson [mailto:derick at shark.zeni.net]

> Right.  Try sending an email from Zurich, where the @ sign is 
> the third
> choice on a swiss keyboard key, and shift, alt, ctrl, nor any 
> combination
> of the above give you the @.

I thought on a lot of Central and Eastern European keyboards it was just
GreyAlt-Q?  At least that's worked from the places I've tried it.

For Macs it's definitely a different matter.  I've seen Internet cafes with
step-by-step directions for generating an '@' plastered right on the front
of the machine it's so convoluted.  

If push comes to shove and it is a Windows machine ALT+0064 typed on the
number keys works most of the time since '@ is Unicode character 0x0040.
Its a dumb way to remember it, but Unicode is twice as bit-wide as ASCII and
a 64-bit machine is twice as bit-wide as mine, so I just dream of 64-bits
when sending email on a strange keyboard.  Hey, I said it was dumb.