Although you may think of the ampersand (&), asterisk (*), andpound sign (#)as typographical symbols found on your computer or phone keyboard, each of these symbols has its own history dating back before computers even existed. Learn more about the origins and meanings of these symbols, al...
To access special characters, long-press the corresponding key on the keyboard. A pop-up will appear, showing various options, including accented letters, currency symbols, and punctuation marks. Simply slide your finger to the desired character and release to type it. ...
When you click on the SHIFT LOCK key, you have access to the shifted-state key symbols that you see on the keycaps, in addition to capital letters. This is the same as a physical keyboard does. In this case, after a ten-second timeout it drops back down to the unshifted state. Th...
While I can type on American, English and Portuguese keyboards, I just can’t do anything on the French. Any standard will have its flaws, but a standard that relies on a specific language will have less flaws on its native language and a lot more on any other. I don’t think too ...
French computers require the shift key in order to display the numbers 0 thru 9. I have made French matrix decoder code for the Teensy 4.0 and 4.1 that takes care of the shift key so that numbers are displayed on a French computer. You can find this code at myGithub repo. ...
You go to system settings > keyboard > text input > input sources and get rid of the Canadian French (or whatever other foreign language keyboard) is on the list, and make sure you only have US or ABC. If you are running something old, it's system preferences > keyboard > input sourc...
The downshift design was intended to provide fast way to access symbols, but interfered with expectations for shift behavior. Suffice to say this prototype did not succeed in the lab. Participants continually struck the right shift key for the usual reasons you’d use a shift key. And when th...
In outlook 2007 I was able to assign symbols to shortcuts which allowed me to type French accents with my US layout keyboard using shortcuts, for example ç would be assigned to alt-c... a mucht quicker solution than having to go insert symbol and searching and clicking on the symbol...
Thus a bilingual user creates a keyboard layout with keys from both an English QWERTY layout and a French AZERTY layout, or a layout that switches between the two. Embodiments of the present invention include a method that chooses among standard international keyboard layouts, that customizes a ...
There's also a separate config setting for the key label sizes, this is useful if the key symbols are too small or too big due to your device's pixel density settings. Some keys don't work, for example Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V for cut&paste. ...