Special Green Characters (canadian kb)

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There have been a few threads about the green buttons on the canadian keyboard. Some solutions have been posted, but they are for linux and not for windows xp.

I would love to use some of the buttons, but for the life of me I cant figure out the key combo needed to make them work.

I have used the windows xp language settings to add a few keyboard layouts, the canadian bilingual, and the canadian french, and canadian french (legacy) whatever that means. None of the kb layouts seem to change anything when I select them, I still can't get anything out of the buttons.

So what gives?? how do we use these characters?

thanks,

Vince
 
The layout is IBM standard Canadian French -- As I do not use Windows XP, I can't help enable on this OS, but it is a standard keyboard layout (available on IBM keyboards). So, it should be straightforward; maybe Microsoft has a national version for this?
 
enabling the layout is no problem.

The language bar makes it easy to add the layout to the windows xp OS. I have done that.

I use Open-Office, it is easy to select the default language from the ones available on your OS. I have done that.

Still, there is no way to use the keys. They do the same thing no matter what software settings are chosen.

There has to be a hotkey combo of some kind. There is zero documentation about these keys provided by Acer.
 
Once enabled, the "extra" stuff printed on each key IS the symbol it produces -- eg. guilmots, not symbol, etc.

There is really no magic to using the layout. All the keys are labeled according to the layout. If you had a "real" French Canadian keyboard, you would see JUST the green labels.

The only way that this is multi-functional is that the OS should have some sort of easy tool to allow you to select layouts. But, the kick is that (even though I use the Fr-Can layout), I have never seen this layout used West of Ontario.
 
Ya that's how I figured it worked.

The only problem is that it doesn't work. I've tried in every word processor I can think of, no matter what the language setting is for the OS, the keys only do the regular function.

Oh well, whatever, its not that important.
 
I notice that the enter key and left-hand shift key suffer from shrinkage on my French-Canadian keyboard.

If I were to order a black US keyboard from that sourceIT spot that has parts ($30 or so), would it be plug and play, or will there be more to it than that?

The $30 would probably be worthwhile, as I keep hitting backslash accidentally instead of left shift and enter. :P
 
If I did that, I wouldn't have any Backslash key, as in American-ese mode, both of those keys function as backslashes. ;)

Anyone know if keyboards are interchangable? I can't see why not, but figure asking first is wise. ;)
 
Yes they certainly are. go for it, its highly unlikely to be a different connector.
 
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