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Sptz

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Aug 8, 2007
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Hey, I'm pretty annoyed I cant type the "@" (I copy paste that) , not even the Euro symbol etc... the Alt key works like, alt+F4 and ctrl+alt+del, but I cant do these symbols with alt ... whats up with that?
 

Queso

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Mar 4, 2006
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What happens if you try to type " , the quotation marks? On a UK Windows keyboard the @ symbol is in that position.
 

Fuzzbear

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Jan 28, 2008
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Illinois, USA
Im guessing your talking about the combo alt 0040 ? cant you just do a shift 2? for the @ sign?



Hey, I'm pretty annoyed I cant type the "@" (I copy paste that) , not even the Euro symbol etc... the Alt key works like, alt+F4 and ctrl+alt+del, but I cant do these symbols with alt ... whats up with that?
 

riscy

macrumors 6502a
Jan 4, 2008
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China
Sounds like you have changed the type of keyboard and language you are using.

Have a look in System preferences>International>Input menu and tell us what you have there.
 

Sptz

macrumors regular
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Aug 8, 2007
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This is windows so... control panel, language settings, and on the keyboard I have Portuguese (I'm from Portugal) but I have the same thing on mac OSX and it works great, I don't know why this doesn't work good on windows.. even double finger scrolling sucks like hell.
 

Sptz

macrumors regular
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Aug 8, 2007
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err.. but " and @ are on the same key which is key 2 ...
 

Eraserhead

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Nov 3, 2005
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OK if you look at Wikipedia's Portuguese keyboard layout

KB_Portuguese.svg


It should be Alt-2 in Windows. If not I'd just try pressing buttons with different function keys until you get it ;).
 

Sptz

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Aug 8, 2007
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I know it is supposed to be alt+2 , that's the purpose of this thread, in MACOSX it works, in windows it doesn't ..
 

Eraserhead

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Nov 3, 2005
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Check the language bar on the bottom toolbar in Windows, and check the language isn't set as English-US. If it is Shift-a will give you what you want.
 
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