On 16/04/2021 12:06, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/15/21 8:52 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On 4/15/21 8:07 PM, AV wrote:
>> On the Logitech keyboard the 5 with % and €. Same for Lenovo laptop.
>> On the Dell XPS 13 laptop the 5 with % and € and the 4 with $ and ₹
>> (Indian Rupee sign).
>>
> I believe that it has not become clear to all readers. In plain words, you need a
keyboard
> that has a number panel to the right of the letter keyboard. These number keys will
also,
> adjacent to them, on the right, have a - sign at the top right, and a + sign at the
middle right.
> These + and - keys have a DIFFERENT key code than the ones on the letter keyboard.
> Laptops don't have a separate number panel, and many--perhaps most--of the
k/b's
> that come with new computers don't either. People who don't do numeric entry
for
> a living mostly don't need that facility, so it gets left off--and saves money
for the
> computer industry.
I'm very sure that he's referring to the regular number keys at the top. The
international ones tend to have extra characters on them for local currencies.
The most common reason for not having a number pad is because there isn't room. I
have two laptops beside me. One has no number pad and the keyboard still goes from edge
to edge. It's not wide enough for more. The other, much larger one, does have the
keypad. Almost all laptops that I've seen and that are wide enough do have the
keypad.
FWIW, only have one laptop. An old Acer. It doesn't have a number pad because there
isn't room. However, if I press
Fn/F11 (The Fn on the key is blue, and in blue on F11 is Numlock) some keys are now the
number pad. For example
U,I,O becomes 4,5,6 and P becomes +.
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