Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/13/05 16:07

Hywel Jenkins wrote:

> That's not a standard QUERTY keyboard. None of the rows on my keyboard
> start with ~, nor do any of them end with it.

On US QWERTY keyboards, the tilde is in the top lefthand corner, above the
tab. On UK QWERTY keyboards, it's near the Enter key and is typed as Shift+#.

There are several other keys that are different on US keyboards, making
Perl especially tricky. @ and " are swapped around. The # is shift+3,
whereas on UK keyboards there's a proper # key (no shift required).

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