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From the "Keyboard layout/IME" popup menu select "Alt-Latin" and click the "OK" button. Back in the "Text Services and Input Languages" window, in the "Default input languages" section, click the popup menu and click "English (United States) - Alt-Latin" in the list. Alt-Latin in now your default keyboard layout. Click the "Advanced" tab.
This did not work for characters not in the Windows Code Page (such as box-drawing characters). The new Alt+0### combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "Windows code pages." [a] For example, Alt+ 0 1 6 3 yields the character £ (symbol for the pound sterling) which is at 163 in CP1252. [2] [b]
Language input keys, which are usually found on Japanese and Korean keyboards, are keys designed to translate letters using an input method editor (IME). On non-Japanese or Korean keyboard layouts using an IME, these functions can usually be reproduced via hotkeys, though not always directly corresponding to the behavior of these keys.
COMMAND. ACTION. CTRL + E. Select the search box. CTRL + F (or F3) Start a search. CTRL + L. Put the cursor in the address bar. Alt + D. Select text in the address bar
These basic PC keyboard shortcuts will work on all applications, browsers, and programs, as well as Windows 10 and earlier versions including Windows 8. Note: To make any hotkey work, you need to ...
Under Windows, the Alt key is pressed and held down while a decimal character code is entered on the numeric keypad; the Alt key is then released and the character appears. The numerical code corresponds to the character’s code point in the Windows 1252 code page, with a leading zero; for example, an en dash (–) is entered using Alt+0150 ...
The new Finnish keyboard standard of 2008 was designed for easily typing 1) Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian; 2) Nordic minority languages and 3) European Latin letters (based on MES-2, with emphasis on contemporary proper nouns), without needing engravings different from those on existing standard keyboards of Finland and Sweden.
Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, [citation needed] although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.