GBP £ Symbol & Euro € Symbol From USA Layout

[Dirty Bint]

Hi,

Is it possible to generate a GBP £ currency symbol and a Euro € currency symbol on a USA layout keyboard if the regional settings in Windows is English UK for language but the keyboard setup is US layout ?

If possible, what keystrokes yield these symbols?


Thx
Dirty Bint

[ch_123]

As said in the last such thread you made, the keyboard layout is determined by the operating system, not the keyboard itself. So yes, it will be generated by, in the case of the UK layout Shift + 3 and Alt-Gr + 4 respectively.

Oh, because the US layout has one less key, if you use it with a UK layout, you'll lose the \| key

[Rajagra]

You can't generate a £, € or even ¢ using the plain US layout. Unless you use the Alt Numpad trick. *

The US-International layout can do them.

You can also use a US-International without deadkeys as mentioned here.

* Hold Alt and type 156 on the numpad to get £.
You might also be able to do:
€ = Alt 0128
£ = Alt 0163

[Dirty Bint]

As said in the last such thread you made, the keyboard layout is determined by the operating system, not the keyboard itself. So yes, it will be generated by, in the case of the UK layout Shift + 3 and Alt-Gr + 4 respectively.

Oh, because the US layout has one less key, if you use it with a UK layout, you'll lose the \| key

ch_123,
If the actual physical keyboard is US layout and the operating system is set to US layout for keyboard then Shift+3 should generate a hash symbol not a £ symbol. My question was what combination of keystrokes on this specific setup would generate a £ and € symbol.

I know that if I set the operating system keyboard setting to UK English layout that Shift+3 will give the £ etc, that was not my original question.


Dirty Bint

[ch_123]

Apologies, I completely misunderstood your question.

The default US layout will not give £ or € by default. US International will (pound becomes AltGr + Shift + 4, euro AltGr + 5)

US Int has a rather annoying 'dead key' system. This is where, in order to facilitate accents, certain keys will do nothing when you press them the first time, and upon subsequently pressing an appropriate vowel, the accented vowel will appear. This means that in order to get the character by itself, you have to press the key and then spacebar. For example, the single/double quotes button is one of the affected ones as it used for umlaut accents, and given how often you'd use this key, it gets really annoying.

Someone around here made a version which ditched the dead keys, and implemented accented vowels using AltGr, which is what I use on my Windows machines. If you have Linux and are running a GNOME or KDE desktop, this layout is built in as the 'US International (AltGr Dead Keys)' layout

[ch_123]

Here is that layout.