From: Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin) (breatpro at domain MLE.CO.UK)
Date: Wed 01 Sep 1999 - 17:13:57 IST
Yup - AltGR and the letter :o)
Anything similar available / How do I in X ??
Proinnsias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Dobey [SMTP:kevin.dobey at domain trintech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 5:09 PM
> To: 'Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin)'; 'Paul Jakma'
> Cc: 'ILUG'
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] [OT] weird windows problem
>
> Now that *IS* cleaver !!
> I had noticed that too but never paid much notice or knew what it was for.
>
>
> However how do you get the e e acute (or what ever it's called) with out
> doing alt 130 ?
>
> So is that one of those weird cases where we can change that "problem" in
> the subject line to say
> "feature" ? :)
>
> Regards
> Kevin - Not near as anti-MS as some people. (Shut up Lyda!)
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin) [mailto:breatpro at domain MLE.CO.UK]
> > Sent: 01 September 1999 16:45
> > To: 'Paul Jakma'
> > Cc: 'ILUG'
> > Subject: RE: [ILUG] [OT] weird windows problem
> >
> >
> > Paul,
> > It's an international english character set thing ...
> >
> > The idea is that you can enter the accented characters easily
> > (not resorting
> > to ALT-133 for à for example)
> >
> > You'll notice that the [Space] key works as well for the extra key :o)
> >
> > You can fix it by setting your character set to English -
> > Ireland if you
> > want :o)
> >
> > Proinnsias
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Jakma [SMTP:Paul.Jakma at domain Digital.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:40 PM
> > > To: 'ilug at domain linux.ie'
> > > Subject: [ILUG] [OT] weird windows problem
> > >
> > > i have a weird problem (computer problem... we won't get
> > into the other
> > > ones): if i wan't to enter a "`" character it doesn't show
> > up until i
> > > press
> > > another key! ie:
> > >
> > > key pressed output
> > > `
> > > s `s
> > >
> > > this happens in every application in windows (outlook,
> > netscape, word,
> > > etc).
> > > but is most annoying when i'm using a terminal and want to
> > do command
> > > substition, eg i have to type:
> > >
> > > rpm -qf `which whatever`d[DEL key]
> > >
> > > all the time to get the second back-tick.
> > >
> > > any ideas anyone? It's windowsNT, at first i thought it was just an
> > > odditiy
> > > unique to that PC, but it happens on another PC aswell..
> > >
> > > ta,
> > >
> > > Paul Jakma
> > > Compaq EOMC
> > > Eastpoint, Dublin.
> > >
> > > paul.jakma at domain compaq.com
> > > Tel: +353 1 818 4303
> > > Mobile: +353 (0)87 699 8972
> > >
> > >
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