The QWERTY keyboard driver

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Remark: a full description of achieving the national symbols is available here (the page needs a Unicode font).

The Polish characters can be obtained this way:

Remarks:

• The key ` is placed left to the 1 key (over the TAB key).
• The capitals are achieved, like always, with contemporary holding the Shift key, e.g. Shift + Right Alt + a = Ą.
• The other way, using the key `, also works with Shift, e.g. `, then Shift + x = Ź (Shift can even be held as early as when pressing the key `).
• For achieving the character ś, the combination Right Alt + d can be used as well (in view of the problems of certain bad written applications that force remapping of the Right Alt + s combination for their own functions).
• Some useful additional combinations are worth remembering. They are presented in the table below.

Remarks:

• The symbol of Euro (€) can be achieved in many ways.
• The symbols ·, × and ÷ are alternative symbols of multiplication and division.
• The combination Right Alt + Shift + = is the same as Right Alt + plus, hence its meaning – ±.
• The combinations Right Alt + – as well as Right Alt + = mean the symbols of the mid and long dashes (En Dash, Em Dash).
• The Polish quotation-marks („ ”) can be achieved with the use of the combination with the keys ; and ' (it works with Alt as well as with `).
• Single triangular quotation-marks (‹ ›) can be achieved with the use of the combination with the keys [ and ] (it works with Alt as well as with `).
• Double triangular quotation-marks (« ») can be achieved with the use of the combinations with the keys < and >, that means Shift + comma and Shift + dot (it works with Alt as well as with `).

The way of achieving of non-Polish (German, Czech, Hungarian etc.) national characters:

Remarks:

• The capitals, like Ŕ, Ű, Ä, can be achieved similarly to the proper small letters, e.g. Ŕ – Right Alt + 1, then Shift + r.
• Certain characters, e.g. û, are impossible to achieve under the Windows-1250 coding. After having changed the codepage into Windows-1252, the suitable combinations (similar to the presented ones in the table, here Right Alt + Shift + 6, then u) should work.
• A full description of the functions of the driver contains information about some other characters that you can use.

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