German keyboard and @ symbol

[Dave Cragg]

At 10:05 am +0100 11/12/01, eugen helbling wrote:
>Dave, I experience the same problem. Actually this is not @ but the 
>right Alt key that is affected.
>So the person can not use the backslash (Alt-? in german layout) as well.
>I use Logitech Wireless keyboard. So to avoid this "limitation" I 
>have to remove service program for the keyboard from the systray 
>everytime I have to edit a metacard script.
>
>regards
>eugen

Thanks for the reply, Eugen.

Could you expain a little more how you avoid this "limitation"? Are 
you saying the problem is related to the driver/software for the 
particular keyboard? Would that explain why it works (in NT, XP at 
least) with my "plain" keyboard?

Cheers
Dave