6 replies to this topic

[Ace Twain]

Simplicity in and of itself. When you press and hold Shift and press 4 what is the symbol that is typed? US it is the $. For some strange reason I think that might change between nations. Might not though.

[CoffiNail]

I think a number of the shift number is different for different nationalities

[Catamount]

I always assumed it was a general currency key, but apparently that's wrong. On the UK keyboard, it's still the $ sign, and the 3 key is the Pound (currency) symbol.

The # key (also called pound?) has been moved to where the ' key is on US keyboards. I can't seem to find a good keyboard for the Eurozone.


My guess is Shift+4 is always $, because it seems to be used sometimes in various kinds of computer code.

[Ace Twain]

Good point on the computer code Cata. If not for that I think the shift+4 always being $ would be kindof messed up.


Edit: missed the f in shift.

Edited by Ace Twain, 16 January 2012 - 06:00 PM.

[Grayson Pryde]

shift+4 is $. I think its always the same on "western keybords".

alt gr+e is €.

[Fiachdubh]

On mine shift+4 is $ and have been using cntrl+alt+4 as €, never realised alt gr did the same job. You have saved me countless seconds and fingure stretches in the future as it also puts fadas on the vowels in Irish (áéíóú), thank you.

[Exilyth]

For me it's '$', on a german qwertz-layout keyboard.

By the way... wiki has loads of information about the different keyboard layouts available: http://en.wikipedia....Keyboard_layout