My experience is limited to PCs (i.e. Windows). In all(?) but the US English
keyboard, the right Alt key is named AltGr and is used for accessing the
three characters that Michael mentions plus a host of others, except that
all are not available in all layouts.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp
contains (all?) national keyboard layouts/mappings that MS-Windows 2000
provides (you must use JavaScript enabled Microsoft Internet Explorer to see
them at this site). Two Italian keyboard mappings exist, one of which
(Italian 142) contains the three characters in question. It is possible to
have several keyboard mappings resident at one time to make switching easy.
Apparently the "Italian 142" was not available under Windows 95, see
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/dis_v1/disv1.asp?DID=dis45d&File=S25B8.as
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--H�kon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Hills [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 15. juli 2002 14:30
> To: stata list
> Subject: st: Italian keyboards
>
>
> I have just returned from Italy where I discovered that Italian
> keyboards lack the left single quote ` and the left and right curly
> barckets{ }. At one time this would only have affected people writing
> programs, but recent developments in Stata have changed this. Italian
> users must have discovered something better than typing the excape
> code each time, and I appeal to them for advice.
>
> I did check the FAQ's but I may have missed something. The problem
> must exist in all countries where some keys are devoted to accented
> letters, leaving fewer for special characters.
>
> --
> Michael Hills
>
> [email protected]
>
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