German keyboard and @ symbol

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Tue Dec 11 03:48:01 EST 2001


At 8:37 am +0000 11/12/01, Dave Cragg wrote:
>Hi
>
>Can someone help?
>
>I have a report of someone not being able to type the @ symbol in a 
>Metacard application on a German keyboard layout on Win 2000. (I 
>believe they are using the English OS with the German keyboard 
>layout.)
>
>The standard keyboard combination for @ on a German keyboard is Alt 
>Gr + q. This works on my machine in Win 98, Win NT 4 and Win XP when 
>the German keyboard layout is selected, so it doesn't look like a 
>Metacard problem.
>
>But I don't have Win 2000 installed, so before I blame the problem 
>on the person's machine/OS/stupidity/etc. , could someone using the 
>German keyboard layout on Win 2000 please confirm that they can (or 
>can't) use Alt Gr + q to type @.

Sorry. I forgot to say that this was with Metacard 2.3.2.

Cheers
Dave Cargg



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