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In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a sequence or combination of keystrokes on a computer keyboard which invokes commands in software.. Most keyboard shortcuts require the user to press a single key or a sequence of keys one after the other.
The German keyboard layout is family of QWERTZ keyboard layouts commonly used in Central Europe, especially Austria and Germany. It is based on one defined in a former edition (October 1988) of the German standard DIN 2137–2.
The precise words used for these assignments and their meaning can vary depending on the context. For example, Microsoft has generally used keyboard shortcuts for Windows [2] and Microsoft Office [3] since the transition to 64-bit for Windows 7.
The UK variant of the Enhanced keyboard commonly used with personal computers designed for Microsoft Windows differs from the US layout as follows: . The UK keyboard has 1 more key than the U.S. keyboard (UK=62, US=61, on the typewriter keys, 102 v 101 including function and other keys, 105 vs 104 on models with Windows keys)
The word arroba is also used for a weight measure in Portuguese. One arroba is equivalent to 32 old Portuguese pounds, approximately 14.7 kg (32 lb), and both the weight and the symbol are called arroba. In Brazil, cattle are still priced by the arroba – now rounded to 15 kg (33 lb). This naming is because the at sign was used to represent ...
The modern metric arroba used in these countries in everyday life is defined as 15 kilograms (33 lb). In Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru the arroba is equivalent to 12.5 kilograms (28 lb). [2] In Bolivia nationally it is equivalent to 30.46 litres (6.70 imp gal; 8.05 US gal).
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.
HP Roman-8 is an 8-bit single byte character encoding that is mainly used on HP-UX [2] and many Hewlett-Packard [7] and PCL compatible printers. The name Roman-8 appeared in 1983, [ 1 ] but a precursor of the character set was already used by the HP 250 and HP 300 workstations since 1978/1979 as 8-bit Roman Extension .