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I'm using the United States International keyboard layout, so pressing ' and then o should make an accented ó in Microsoft Windows 10.

The problem is that I'm using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and it doesn't have an Alt Gr and it doesn't have a numerical keypad.

Any ideas if there's a way to type the pound sign (£) on this keyboard?

This is the layout:

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On the US-International keyboard under Windows, if you have two Alt keys, the right one gets remapped to AltGr. If you don’t, using Ctrl+Alt provides the same functionality - that is, to enter ß, you would use AltGr+s, or Ctrl+Alt+s.

For the pound-sterling sign £, one would type AltGr+Shift+4, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+4.

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    I was familiar with AltGr, but I didn't know ctrl+alt = altgr.
    – Pablo Fernandez
    Aug 28, 2018 at 18:21
  • @JeffZeitlin: I use a customized version of US-INT which allows the ASCII grave, apostrophe, tilde, quote, and caret characters to be typed without annoying dead-key behavior. Add Alt+GR to those keys to get dead keys. I have no idea why MS makes keyboard customization such a pain.
    – supercat
    Aug 28, 2018 at 21:22
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Not a Windows person, but knowing that many modern OS’s now accommodate for easier entry of non-common (aka: “International”) characters with (relatively) simple key combinations.

My first suggestion would be to try some of the “usual” alt-character keys (Shift, Alt and Ctrl) mixed with the $ key and see if that produces a £ (pound symbol). Like this first try with the Ctrl key:

Ctrl+$

Or try just the Alt key like this:

Alt+$

Then try adding Shift to the combo like this:

Shift+Ctrl+$

And finally, try adding Alt to the mix like this:

Alt+Shift+Ctrl+$

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