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The inverted question mark (¿) corresponds to Unicode code-point U+00BF ¿ INVERTED QUESTION MARK (¿), and can be accessed from the keyboard in Microsoft Windows on the default US layout by holding down the Alt and typing either 1 6 8 (ANSI) or 0 1 9 1 (Unicode) on the numeric keypad.
The upside-down (also inverted, turned or rotated) question mark ¿ and exclamation mark ¡ are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages that have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray. [1]
Punctuation (by use of such characters as the interpunct and the inverted question mark and exclamation point) is mostly covered. Several Internet utilities exist for the transformation of regular text to (and sometimes from) upside-down text; each has its own slightly different algorithm for letters not precisely or well covered.
In this keyboard, the key names are translated to French: ⇪ Caps Lock is Fix Maj or Verr Maj (short for Fixer/Verrouiller Majuscule, meaning Lock Uppercase). ↵ Enter is ↵ Entrée. [11] Esc is Échap. A full standardized Quebec CSA keyboard has significantly more symbols and pictograms. This layout allow to type at least in English, French ...
IBM states that AltGr is an abbreviation for alternate graphic. [3] [4]Sun Microsystems keyboard, which labels the key as Alt Graph. A key labelled with some variation of "Alt Graphic" was on many computer keyboards before the Windows international layouts.
Some typefaces differentiate Cyrillic style (top) and Latin style breve (bottom). A breve (/ ˈ b r iː v / ⓘ BREEV, less often / ˈ b r ɛ v / ⓘ BREV, neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ̆, shaped like the bottom half of a circle.
On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
The inverted-T layout was popularized by the Digital Equipment Corporation LK201 keyboard from 1982. Most Commodore 8-bit computers used two cursor keys instead of four, with directions selected using the shift key. The original Macintosh had no arrow keys at the insistence of Steve Jobs, who felt that people should use the mouse instead. [3]