[R] italian keyboard and ~ symbol

[Federico Calboli]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 11:48, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> <Press-Alt> + Num1 + Num2 + Num6 + <Release-Alt> where Num1, Num2 &
> Num6 are 1, 2 & 6 on the *numeric keyboard* (not the ones above the
> letter keys) will produce ASCII character 126 ("~", tilde) on my WinXP
> Pro in both Rterm and Rgui for R v1.8.1. Do you get anything at all?
> Does it work in any other Windows applications or dialogs (you
> mentioned Word)? What about <Press-Alt> + Num6 + Num5 + <Release-Alt>
> (should give "A")?

Rather annoyingly it does not work.
> 
> You could also consider remapping your keyboard, i.e. for some
> physical key replace a "useless/never used" character with "~"
> (tilde). Some initial links can be found at
> http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/keyboard/.
> 

It appears it is the only option.

Regards,

Federico
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