"Charlie42" <Charlie42@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>> That does not appear to work on my XP laptop (UK Keyboard).
>
> That is strange, it has worked on all my keyboards - including the English
> ones - since Win95, I believe. There are different types of English keyboards. The tilde key is in a
completely different place on UK ones. They have L shaped Return keys, and
the \ key is inbetween SHIFT and Z.
That might have something to do with it, but I have never noticed that
behaviour on any UK keyboards that I have used. You can get accented
vowels, when using the AltGr key though. Mac keyboards have got an elegant
way to get accents while pressing the Option key.
ss.