Jul 31, 2010 · SharpKeys 3.0 couldn't read any of the special keys on my laptop. My bet is that they aren't actual key presses, but instead ACPI events. Thus, I need a way to map some ACPI events to useful actions. AutoHotkey. I've tried installing AutoHotkey and running a script to find scancode of a key. No luck, these special keys on my laptop don't appear ...

Jul 22, 2020 · I have a laptop (Windows 10) with no numpad, so cannot use alt codes to type special characters. I purchased a bluetooth numpad, but it does not seem to work either. How do I make this work?

Mar 6, 2019 · I was checking the security rights for the folder C:\Windows\System32\Tasks and find that Authenticated Users group has Special Permissions (notice that it has no Write permissions): I went into Advanced tab and the basic view is (notice that it …

Even i faced the issue with special characters while downloading the japanese terms in .csv format.However when i saved the .csv file in Text format(Tab delimited) the japanese characters where populating perfectly. Then i just copied data from text file and pasted in a spreadsheet. Worked well!!! Thanks, Vaishakh

I would just correct that what the OP is asking about are not any special directories or shortcuts but regular environment variables. They may contain any numeric or alphanumeric value, some of them just contain filesystem paths. –

To clarify this answer, these special characters could interfere with parsing a command line (or path) if they were in a filename. There is no requirement to delimit the filename in any way (e.g. surround it with quotes or spaces), so encountering such a special char would cause incorrect parsing (i.e is the special char part of the filename or ...

Find the Special Characters Key section. Enable the Compose Key and select your preferred key, such as the Right Alt or Menu key. Once activated, you can use the Compose Key to input special characters. For example, pressing the Compose Key followed by o and c will produce the copyright symbol: ©.

May 27, 2019 · During last years I have found problems due this special characters, sometimes symbols have to be escaped at scripts. For example @ symbol at username can produce problems because some interfaces or cli apps expect a domain/urls after @.

The answers provided in this discussion, while interesting, are somewhat esoteric. The simple answer is that none of the symbols are sorted after the letters (not taking into account the special way ' and -is handled, see below). The other answers state that symbol characters are sorted by …

Many command line programs use the hyphen [-] to indicate special arguments. *nix based systems use a full-stop [.] as a leading character for hidden files and directories. Anything not in the ASCII set can cause problems on older or more basic systems (e.g. some embedded systems), and should be used with care.