Re: Silly-question

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3fjfi4INNr2q@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>,
Peter Hinchliffe <hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
>  
> Then, of course, there is that other switch, the 'keyboard' switch. 
> On US versions of the IIc, this would transform the keyboard layout 
> from the standard QWERTY to a Dvorak configuration and back again. On 
> our European versions it does no more than toggle the shift-3 key 
> between the 'hash' sign (#) and the British pound sign.

This is the same function as the switch on the underside of the
keyboard on the international IIe - it selects whether the "local" or
US character set is enabled.  Australia and New Zealand have English
IIe and IIcs, so we get the useless pound sign in the "local"
character set.

Other European countries have a more useful local character set,
including accented characters, for example.
-- 
David Empson
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