macbook keyboard

nadimmu

so, it took me a while to figure out where the hash key was on the keyboard, Apple has sneakily disguised it as a pound sterling sign.

But what confused me the most was what the key, under the Escape key is.
I mean what is the (± §) really used for? Is there a way in system preferences to reassign that key to something else? How come some macbooks from the states have it different?

Here is a picture of what my macbook keyboard looks like:

Ham'nd'egger

nadimmu wrote: »

so, it took me a while to figure out where the hash key was on the keyboard, Apple has sneakily disguised it as a pound sterling sign.

But what confused me the most was what the key, under the Escape key is.
I mean what is the (± §) really used for? Is there a way in system preferences to reassign that key to something else? How come some macbooks from the states have it different?

Here is a picture of what my macbook keyboard looks like:

You can indeed assign shortcuts in the Keyboard/Mouse settings; unsure about changing keys from designated letters or symbols though. Can I assume that your Macbook is set to Ireland's settings?

Sad Professor

The lack of symbol for the hash key is really annoying alright. I always forget which it is.

SP

nadimmu

oh yeh, i got my macbook in dublin about 2 months ago, so its pratically the newest one so far...not unless Apple designs a new one by September <<rumour! but could be true!

My language setting on the macbook is set to International..but still i can't fingure out how to reassign as u say different characters.

Ham'nd'egger

nadimmu wrote: »

oh yeh, i got my macbook in dublin about 2 months ago, so its pratically the newest one so far...not unless Apple designs a new one by September <<rumour! but could be true!

My language setting on the macbook is set to International..but still i can't fingure out how to reassign as u say different characters.

In System Preferences, click on the International Icon (Looks like the UN flag), click on Imput Menu and click on Ireland if it hasn't been selected. If you wish, do likewise in the Formats if you so wish.

440Hz

nadimmu wrote: »

I mean what is the (± §) really used for?

Just for the record...

The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity § ) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (page).

And the ± probably speaks for itself

nadimmu

440Hz wrote: »

Just for the record...

The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity § ) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (page).

And the ± probably speaks for itself

oh right, i've done littke java in college, so i presume all that stuff is for html coding and java .. hmm...im not doing that anymore, i just hope once i get money in, i'll get 2 new keys from ebay lol

muggyog

Useful feature in the International preferences under Input Menu is the Keyboard Viewer option. If you select the tick box and also tick Show input menu in menu bar, you can see what character each key is assigned to. Press alt or shift for exciting effect!!

nadimmu

oh yeh, played around with that, there are loads of characters i never knew existed, haven't seen them on Windows machines.

Does anyone have spell catcher? is there an alternative free version of that?

440Hz

nadimmu wrote: »

oh right, i've done littke java in college, so i presume all that stuff is for html coding and java ..

Nope, more likely to find it in legal documentation tbh. Not coding related at all!

ZENER

440Hz wrote: »

Just for the record...

The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity § ) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (page).

And the ± probably speaks for itself

SWOT !!!!


ZEN

440Hz

ZENER wrote: »

SWOT !!!!


ZEN

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