Things are different here...

[Kevin Hodle]

It took me afew weeks to get used to my sun keyboard... I still have
problems with the caps lock being where the Ctrl key is supposed to be
(that one just kills me in linux).
 
Kevin Hodle
CCNA, Network+, A+
Alexander Open Systems
Network Operations Center
(913)-307-2367
kevinh at aos5.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Ron [mailto:rdparker at butlermfg.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:52 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: Things are different here...

> -----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.