Re: Nominations for Most Useless Key on keyboard...

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:31:09 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
<NOantti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In my (European) keyboard I get the euro sign from Alt Gr + E. Also works on
>some older keyboards where it's not printed...

Swedish keyboard is the same.

>Me, I'm missing the ~ (tilde) key, which is used in some games to enter a
>mode where you can type in cheats and stuff - I don't have that key, so I
>basically suck at those games...<g>

Swedish keyboard: AltGr + ^/¨ (Just to the left of the large ENTER key)

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