Posted by Els on 10/06/42 11:42

Dylan Parry wrote:

> Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Els finally
> proclaimed:
>
>> Besides that, I don't know how you type, but for me, pressing the
>> left-Alt with my left hand and typing any combination of 3 digits
> [...]
>
> It isn't actually possible to do that on a laptop machine without great
> difficulty as the alt+keypad combinations require that you use the
> keypad numbers, but my laptop doesn't have one ;)

You have the wrong laptop :P
http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/images_big/images_large/aspire9500.jpg

>> Well, it doesn't work in my Dialog on WinXP :-)
>
> Must be your version of Windows? I presume you have a Dutch version?

Yes. But wouldn't that be more reason to have shortcuts for é and ë?
(as they are part of our language, not yours) :-)

> I'm
> just guessing now that maybe the localised versions are different, or
> that there is some different set-up with non-UK keyboards...

You mean if I would set my keyboard to Dutch or UK instead of US, it
might work?

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