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Title: British Pound Sign
Post by: schadfield on March 31, 2005, 05:41:35 am

I have just installed OZ 3.5.2 + OPIE on an SL-5500. The Zaurus FAQ implies that I should be able to generate the British pound sign "£" using Fn followed by Shift-E. This does not appear to work. Any clues what is wrong?

Title: British Pound Sign
Post by: lardman on March 31, 2005, 06:31:30 am

What does fn-shift-E produce (if anything)?

I've never wanted to type a pound sign depite being English and living in England so it's never come up. Assuming that nothing is printed you could submit a bug report and get the key mapping changed to produce the correct symbol.


Si

Title: British Pound Sign
Post by: schadfield on March 31, 2005, 06:35:31 am

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What does fn-shift-E produce (if anything)?
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A lower case "e"! In the text editor BTW.

Title: British Pound Sign
Post by: lardman on March 31, 2005, 07:00:28 am

I can't see many people missing that (at least if they have to press fn-shift first anyway) :-).

I don't know how the keymapping is handled (but I can't see any troubles with having this one mapping to £, I just don't know how though), but it might also be worth looking at one of those add on programs which do foreign keymappings - actually OZ comes with something which does this (I can currently change the language to Czech I think), I wonder if it's a simple case of altering a conf file somewhere to specify which keys map to which symbols/chars for a given language.

Anyone?


Si

Title: British Pound Sign
Post by: systemparadox on March 31, 2005, 08:35:55 am

Where are the keymaps for the hardware keyboard on OZ?
(something which i've been meaning to do for a while but haven't got round to is changing the hardware keyboard to dvorak)
Thanks
Simon