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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:07:02 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Anders Isaksson writes:
> Despite this, all (?) Swedish ISP:s use the tilde in user names (see sig.)
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> I think the main problem is that US keyboards/users doesn't care for the
> rest of the world, while the rest of the world have to care both for
> themselves and the US. (On of my pet peeves: US chauvinism...)
Me too -- I know what you mean. And the cluelessness about non-U.S.
conventions is IMHO even worse than the chauvinism...
One thing to remember, though: The A in ASCII does stand for American. :-)
Say, I've got a user-interface question about the ~ keyboard thing. Do you
*have to* type Tilde-Space to get a plain tilde (meaning ASCII character #126),
or can you type Tilde-Tilde (which is probably 1/10 second faster) to get a
plain tilde? Also, when typing Tilde-Space, if you accidentally forget to let
up the Shift key before hitting Space, is Tilde-Shift-Space interpreted the
same as Tilde-Space? Curious minds want to know! :-) I'm sure the answer
depends on the keyboard driver in use, but I wonder what some of the more
common drivers do...?
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: URL characters
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| (...) Tilde is not a shift+anykey character but rather RightAlt+anykey (ü in Turkish "q" keyboards) character. RightAlt key (actually named as "Alt Gr") behaves differently from LeftAlt key in most european keyboards and only used for performing a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: URL characters
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| Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Agreed, but in my vocabulary 'clueless' rings harsher than 'chauvinist', am I totally out of line there? (...) I don't have all the messages in the thread left (and am off-line, as usual), but I'm sure my (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: URL characters
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| Jacob Sparre Andersen skrev i meddelandet ... (...) for (...) It has nothing to do with different software (MS or others), it's in the keyboard driver (OK, that's probably MS). On a Swedish keyboard '~' is a 'dead char', which is automatically (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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