U.S. English Windows Keyboard: Expressing Currencies
- From: "Kane Brolin" <kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW Mailing List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:48:43 -0500
I have an unusual question. An answer to this would be "nice to
have,"though it's unimportant to many:
I've recently discovered the English U.S. International keyboard
language setting available from the Windows Control Panel. This might
become very convenient for me to use in business writing, since I do
sometimes make references to the British pound and the Euro, among
other currencies. What I discovered is that in this keyboard layout,
using the right-hand ALT key, I can make a British pound sign through
use of ALT+SHFT+4, and I can make the Euro symbol with ALT+5.
But when I try to express the currency denomination followed by an
amount--as in $500, except in pounds or Euros--the rest of that
expression is capitalized, so that the numerical value I want to write
is expressed wrongly in symbols. Instead of expressing 350 British
pounds, for instance, my attempt to do this results IN £#%) instead.
It's as though my CAPS LOCK is invoked without my trying to invoke it.
Is this somehow related to JAWS? Or is there another way I can help
Windows not be confused by numbers when the digits immediately follow
a special character such as £ or €?
If anyone cares about this and has figured it out, thanks in advance
for your help!
-Kane
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