Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: keyboard layout

Calling upon the joint powers of ICLI:
which is the "square" key on a qwerty keyboard?
The peace of mind of a 8 yrs old child depends on it (in order to get  the
cheats to frogger2 going).
Thanks
Ol.

> which is the "square" key on a qwerty keyboard?
On my keyboard most are square, although a few are rectangular.
Infatti, non credo che sia un tasto sulla tastiera del PC ma invece del
Playstation.

 ha scritto nel messaggio
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se ho ben capito la domanda, il simbolo convenzionale per
indicare l'elevazione a potenza e' il segno apice   ^,
i.e. tre elevato al quadrato si scrive 3^2 = 9
      4^2 = 16, 2^3= 8
Ma questo quasi esclusivamente in ambienti di
programmazione (linguaggi). In lingua corrente
e' preferibile scrivere (numero)raised to(numero).
Spero di averti aiutato.
bye
MouseTrap Joe
EOM

"fuzzi" <
o.f...@shineline.it
un'altra possibilita' e che il riferimento sia alle parentesi
quadre (left & right Square brackets) che si trovano
immediatamente alla sinistra del tasto Enter, e si
ottengono tenendo premuto il tasto Alt Gr che sta
immediatamente a destra della barra spaziatrice.
Se potessi riportare un po' del contesto
ciao
Joe
EOM

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Unless of course they mean the carriage return which looks like a
square [][] , or unknown characters can look like one too in ASCII. I
often get them when I change a PC document to ASCII. 
Or one could be talking of 'keyboard equivalents', which could be
anything the programmers have chosen to represent the game pad keys. 
Usually one uses the cheats appropriate for each platform. So the
cheats for a PC version won#t always be the same as a Playstation
version. Most cheat sites have varying versions for the same game.
Cheers,
Loki
Who still hasn#t found out where the apostrophe has moved to with
this new keymap.... 


So why did you change it, anyway? Here is a popular line among
computer people: if it works, don't fix it!
+--
I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

I suspect it really was a PS key.
Found another set of cheats (works with "ctrl + r")
Thanks everybody for the try.
Ol.

 computer people: if it works, don't fix it!
But that would make life too simple..:-) where#s the challenge?
Curiosity (killed the cat , or computer)
I was hoping to see what the Euro sign looked like - but then I need
to update the font too and I haven#t done that yet either. Altho why
the keymapper couldn#t have kept all the keys in the proper place. 
But I have a Fontmaker programme so I could make my own - if I only
knew what a Euro looked like.
Cheers,
Loki
-- 
  Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare

I was hoping to see what the Euro sign looked like -
You can try to google for "euro currency symbol"; you will get many links
to pages where you can see the symbol. For example, here:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1140.html
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http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1140.html
Thanks, looks suspiciously like an ammended Commodore symbol C=, I
hope it has better luck... :-)))
Cheers,
Loki

 knew what a Euro looked like.
Have you tried AltGr+e, alternatively AltGr+Ctrl+e ?
I don't know if it will travel well on the Internet and this
newsgroup, but I put a few Euro symbols on the line below:
€ € € € € € € € € € € € €
After you have satisfied your curiosity, I suggest you never use the
symbol, not for any currency, and instead use the ISO names used by
the banks, such as EUR, USD, ITL, FFR, GBP, NZD, etc. -- good
old-fashioned ASCII characters.
---
Xakero


I see it didn't travel well at all. Blanks
in some newsreaders, question marks in others. One more reason to use the
ISO name EUR instead.
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Xakero
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They travelled to a Mac using Netscape alright.
I like the little symbols but agree that for anything critical, the text
versions are probably safer.
<begin humor>
To be absolutely safe, everyone should convert to and use USD only, unless
you are in Saudi
Arabia or Afghanistan.  Then it's not so safe.
<end humor>
Boy I hate this bottom posting stuff.  This is the only NG I read where the
members are such
dictators about it.  Can't you folks remember what the previous response
was?  Instead, for every
message I read, I have to scroll down past the stuff I just read in the
previous message.  I'm mean,
if you're really interested in what's being said and want to see the whole
dialog, can't you, the
late comer, start at the bottom and work your way up?  From then on, you
just click the next
message and the latest cute/cutting reply is right at the top.  Bottom
posting... how old-lady is that?
Wait a minute, I forgot.  This NG *IS* run by a bunch of old ladies.
Yours in servitude,
Rick

 
Agreed.
Max

> I'm mean,
Awww. Dovè Freud quando si ne ha bisogna?

 old-fashioned ASCII characters.
You been reading the Economist lately?  ;-)))
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 Rick
And you#re finding it so hard to be flexible at your tender age,
aren#t you...
hehehe.
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 old-fashioned ASCII characters.
Try this page for information on Euro in Unicode, barcodes, phones
etc.
http://www.dragoman.org/euro/
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I'm going skiing tomorrow to reassert my flexibility.  Nah na nah na NAH
na. <== snooty kid expression for So There!
(Is it summertime in your parts Loki, and do they have skiing there?)
Rick

 (Is it summertime in your parts Loki, and do they have skiing there?)
It is summertime and we're having more rain than we did in
springtime... <sigh> 
So the grass is still green but the sky is cloudy more often than
not. We live the climate change.
Skiing, yes and I've even done some in my time, although I don't
recommend skiing in a whiteout, you can't even see the ground
disappear in front of your skiis. Till you go there....
If you want to see what the South Island of New Zealand looks like
(our skiing mecca), see Lord of the Rings. Those mountains are real.
Just realise we have no Orcs, etc. :-)))
Cheers,
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I enjoyed it a couple of days ago, very impressive. If only they had
chosen someone else for Frodo, that guy looks so unreal. On the other
side, Aragorn looks like Franz Di Cioccio so P.F.M. fans will be happy.
It's a pity you don't have orcs on those awesome nountains, though;
they would add some thrill for skiers and vacationers in general.
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 ... that's ... we're ... I've ... can't ...
Hurrah, youv'e got you apostrophe back! I'm so happy for you!
Merry Christmas!
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Xakero

 You been reading the Economist lately?  ;-)))
I have, and I don't like their selective use of currency symbols. Or
have you ever seen them use the symbol for the French franc, the
Italian lira, the Vietnamese dong? They look cute, too, you know.
Nor do I like it when they write, for example, 15 metres (15m) when
they mean 15 million.
But then one should not be surprised. It was The Economist, after all,
who calculated how much printing ink can be saved if the W is dropped
from "George W. Bush". I have a sneaking suspicion that Scots run that
outfit :-)
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Xakero

 the web, Max M.
No surprise. Google simply keeps the original code, which you'll view as a
Euro symbol if your platform/application/font make provision for it.
But the Euro symbol is not part of the ISO-8859-1 character set and
software can't be requested to behave as if it were.
Having said that, I'm confident all platforms will eventually "comply"
with that MS extension, if we don't manage to migrate to Unicode first.
Max