Keyboard keys definitions

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Gniagnia  #121434  Tue, 26 Jul 05 10:42 AM
Hi all,

I've searched the forums but seemingly there is no post dealing with that topic.
Computer keyboards have several symbols that I'm not able to name.
Here they are (I try to define roughly some of these symbols on my own....) :



"
'
`
-  ('hyphen' or 'dash' ?)
&
~ ('tilde' ?)
_ ('underscore'?)
^
*
/
\
[
{
(



Thank you in advance for your help,
Regards




  
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pieanne  #121456  Tue, 26 Jul 05 11:29 AM

quotation mark
'
` apostrophy
-  ('hyphen' or 'dash' ?)
&
~ ('tilde' ?)
_ ('underscore'?)
^
* asterisk
/ slant
\
[ bracket
{
( parentheses

Sorry, I don't know all of them...


 

  
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I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...
goldmund  #121506  Tue, 26 Jul 05 02:24 PM

Dear Gniagnia,

The others are:

' apostrophe

` grave accent

& ampersand

^ caret if it is alone, circumflex if it is on a vowel

/ forward slash or solidus

\ back slash or reverse solidus

[ left square bracket

{ left curly bracket

( left parenthesis

You may open Character Map and click on the characters. It will tell you what they are.

Kind regards,  Smile [:)]

Goldmund

  
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Gniagnia  #121511  Tue, 26 Jul 05 02:36 PM
Thanks a lot pieanne and goldmund  !!

Have a nice day
  
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