Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!dkuugin!keld From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP 95LX - somethings are missing. Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 19:34:10 GMT References: <9104271550.AA09947@amuz2.amuz2.z.amu.se> <9105021008.AA03818@heron.qz.se> Sender: news@slyrf.dkuug.dk Lines: 22 s1039@heron.qz.se (Lars Magnusson) writes: >>>the size of it so we scandinavians (and others) can get our aa, >>>ae and oe chars keys. At the 70-series Corvallis blundered to 100 % >>>since the aa (a with a ring above) didn't even exist as a blue >>>key char. The world does not end at Maine coast line, you know. >.... >>The 95LX has a CHAR key, which gives you two-keystroke access to all of these >>"accented/double" characters. First the CHAR key is pressed, then an alpha >>key. The "international" versions of the 95LX have these characters >>printed on the overlay, to make it easy to find them. >> >>Everett I think you miss some competition edge, then. Scandinavians are used to have their national letters easily accessible (one key for lower case - shift+one key for uppercase) Even my small Atari portfolio has got that, and all PCs and Macs sold in this country. My portfolio also speaks Danish on all dos commands and portfolio hotkeys, this is equivalent to common PC DOS behaviour. Keld Simonsen