Hi All,

I found a new key (to me), on the Windows keyboard.

The key is next to the right (main) keyboard, and is marked with a
'roof', two top dots and a 'sinus' sign.

I was writing a letter in german and needed the letter u with two dots
on top. I didn't fancy taking out a M$ manual to find out the character
codes, so I tested that newfound key, and voil  I got the umlaut 'u'.

Pressing the key with the dots and then the 'u', I got the wanted chr.
The same happened with the 'o' letter to get a roof on top, and also
with the letter 'n' with a sinus on top, as used in spanish.

I did check all my older Windows keyboards, and they too have the same
key.

Of course I can get these same letters in DOS and OS/2 with a non-Win
keyboard by using PC8 character codes, but now I found out that even my
non-Windows keyboards, have that same key similarly marked!

It's true that we learn as long as we live, but it took me an awful long
time to find this out.


Regards,

Holger

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