Typing a £ or a € on a physical US-format laptop keyboard

[BobH]

Most fonts nowadays contain a Euro symbol: Alt+0128 = €

No doubt, you are correct, Sir Hans; however, my fonts are a bit tongue-tied. That is to say that I have an HP 530 laptop with no numeric keypad. Using WinXP Pro SP3 and displaying the Character Map for several fonts (starting with Times New Roman then going to Verdana), I could find no display of the euro character. Although the keyboard shows a num lk key and shows a numeric keypad hidden in the M/J/U/7, K/I/8, and L/O/9 keys, I don't know how to invoke the num lk. I tried SHIFT then CTRL and SHIFT/CTRL to no avail.

My keyboard has a speech impediment! It can't spell either!

[HansV]

Start Character Map.
Click the "Advanced View" check box at the bottom of the dialog.
Select "Windows: Western" from the Character Set dropdown.
The Euro symbol should be listed after the tilda character ~:

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If you select "Unicode" from the Character Set dropdown, the Euro symbol will be way down, among the Currency symbols.

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The easiest way to find it is to enter euro in the Search for box and click Search.

[BobH]

Hans is there ANYTHING you don't know about Windows?

Thank you very much, my friend!

[BobH]

Hans just cured my keyboard's speech impediment.

I think it will take him a bit longer to teach it to spell.