In most of the keyboard diagrams the symbol one gets when holding down AltGr is in blue in the lower-right of the corner. If different, the symbol for Shift+AltGr is shown in the upper-right.
Bangladesh Belgium The Windows version of the
Belgian keyboard may only support a subset of these characters. Several of the AltGr combinations are themselves
dead keys, which are followed by another letter to produce an accented version of that letter.
Brazil Some notes • The combination results in the (obsolete) symbol ₢ for the former Brazilian currency, the
Brazilian cruzeiro. • The , , combinations are useful as a replacement for the "/?" key, which is physically absent on non-Brazilian keyboards. • Some software (e.g. Microsoft Word) will map to ® and to ™.
Finland s in red; Icelandic and Faroese
Ð/ð is on the D key, the Sámi
Đ/đ available using the AltGr diacritic on L The new Finnish keyboard standard of 2008 (
SFS 5966) was designed for easily typing 1) Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian; 2)
Nordic minority languages and 3) European Latin letters (based on
MES-2, with emphasis on contemporary proper nouns), without needing engravings different from those on existing standard keyboards of Finland and Sweden. AltGr and
dead diacritic keys are extensively used, although letters of Finnish and Swedish are mostly provided as normal keys.
France On
AZERTY keyboards, AltGr enables the user to type the following characters:
Germany On
German keyboards, AltGr enables the user to type the following characters, which are indicated on the keyboard:
Windows 8 introduced the ability of pressing to produce
ẞ (
capital ß). Even though this is usually not indicated on the physical keyboard—potentially due to a lack of space, since the ß-key already has three different levels ( → "ß", → "?", and, as shown above, → "\")—, it can be seen in the Windows
On-Screen Keyboard by selecting the necessary keys with the German keyboard layout selected. Some newer types of German keyboards offer the assignment → capital ß.
Greece Some of these key combinations also result in different characters if the
polytonic layout is used.
Israel Hebrew On
Hebrew keyboards, AltGr enables the user to type the
Hebrew vowels and pronunciation marks. In addition, there are several combinations for special characters: • →
€ • →
₪ • →
° • →
֫ • →
ֽ • →
× • →
LRM • →
RLM • →
־ • →
– • →
÷ • →
” • →
“ • →
„ • →
’ • →
‘ • →
‚ • →
׳ • →
״ • →
׆ Yiddish Using a Hebrew keyboard, one may write in
Yiddish as the two languages share many letters. However, Yiddish has some additional digraphs not otherwise found in Hebrew, which are entered via AltGr: • → • → • →
Italy On
Italian keyboards, AltGr enables the user to type the following characters: • → € • → € • → @ • → # • → [ • → ] • → { • → } There is an alternate layout, which differ just in disposition of characters accessible through AltGr and includes the tilde and the curly brackets.
Latvia The following letters can be input in the
Latvian keyboard layout using AltGr: ====
Lowercase letters ==== • → ā • → č • → ē • → ģ • → ī • → ķ • → ļ • → ņ • → ō • → ŗ • → š • → ū • → ž ====
Uppercase letters ==== • → Ā • → Č • → Ē • → Ģ • → Ī • → Ķ • → Ļ • → Ņ • → Ō • → Ŗ • → Š • → Ū • → Ž
North Macedonia On
Macedonian keyboards, AltGr enables the user to type the following characters: • → € • → Ђ • → ђ • → [ • → ] • → Ћ • → ћ • → @ • → { • → } • → §
Netherlands •
Digits row • → ¹ and ¡ • → ² • → ³ • → £ and ¤ • → € • → ¼ • → ½ • → ¾ • → ‘ • → ’ • → ¥ • → × and ÷ •
Top letters row • → ä and Ä • → å and Å • → é and É • → ® • → þ and Þ (Icelandic and Old English thorn) • → ü and Ü • → ú and Ú • → í and Í • → ó and Ó • → ö and Ö • → « • → » • → ¬ and ¦ •
Middle letters row (Home row) • → á and Á • → ß (German eszett aka sharp s) and § • → ð and Ð (Icelandic eth) • → ø and Ø • → ¶ and ° • → ´ and ¨ •
Bottom letters row • → æ and Æ • → © and ¢ • → ñ and Ñ • → • → ç and Ç • → ¿
Nordic countries and Estonia, except Iceland The keyboard layouts in the
Nordic countries Denmark (DK),
Faroe Islands (FO),
Finland (FI),
Norway (NO) and
Sweden (SE) as well as in
Estonia (EE) are largely similar to each other. Generally the AltGr key can be used to create the following characters: • → @ • → £ • → $ • → € • → • → { • → [ • → ] • → } • → ~ (excluding EE) Other AltGr combinations are peculiar to just some of the countries: • → \ (EE, FI,
SE) • → | (EE, FI, SE) • → \ (
DK,
FO) • → | (DK, FO) • → ´ (
NO) • → ~ (FO) • → ¨ (FO) • → ^ (FO) • → € (NO, DK, FO, SE, sometimes FI) • → š (EE, sometimes FI) • → ž (EE, sometimes FI) • → § (EE) • → ½ (EE)
Finnish multilingual The
Finnish multilingual keyboard standard adds many new characters to the traditional layout via the AltGr key, as shown in the image below (the blue characters can be written with the AltGr key; several
dead key diacritics, shown in red, are also available as an AltGr combination). :
Poland Typewriters in
Poland used a
QWERTZ layout specifically designed for the
Polish language with
accented letters in the
Polish alphabet obtainable directly. When personal computers became available worldwide in the 1980s, commercial importing into Poland was not supported by its communist government, so most machines in Poland were brought in by private individuals. Most had US keyboards, and various methods were devised to make available the accented Polish letters. An established method was to configure the
rightAlt key as an AltGr key and to use it in combination with a Latin base letter to obtain the equivalent
precomposed character (accented form of the letter). • →
ą • →
ć • →
ę • →
ł • →
ń • →
ó • →
ś • →
€ • →
ź • →
ż (Because there are two types of "z with
diacritic" ( and ), is a special case.) At the time of the
Fall of communism and opening of commercial import channels this practice was so widespread that it was adopted as the de facto standard. Nowadays nearly all PCs in Poland have standard US keyboards and use the AltGr method to enter Polish diacritics. This
keyboard mapping is referred to as the ''Polish programmers' layout
() or simply Polish layout''. Another layout is still used on typewriters, mostly by professional typists. Computer keyboards with this layout are available, though difficult to find, and supported by a number of operating systems; they are known as ''Polish typists' layout
(). Older Polish versions of Microsoft Windows used this layout, describing it as Polish layout
. On current versions it is referred to as Polish (214)''.
Romania The keymap with the
AltGr key: • → ` • → ~ • → ˇ • → ^ • → ˘ • → ° • → ˛ • → ` • → ˙ • → ´ • → ˝ • → ¨ • → € • → § • → [ • → ] • → \ • → ß • → đ • → Đ • → ł • → Ł • → ; • → ' • → © + the signs mostly pressed with prints the US keyboard signs â ß € r ț y u î o § „ ” ă ș đ f g h j k ł ; z x © v b n m « »
Russia Since release 1903, versions of Windows 10 have the binding: • → ₽ (
Ruble sign)
South Slavic Latin and Czech keyboards On South Slavic Latin (used in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia) and on Czech keyboards, the following letters and special characters are created using AltGr: • → \ • → | • → € • → ÷ • → × • → [ • → ] • → ł • → Ł • → ß • → ¤ • → @ • → { • → } • → § • → < • → > • → ~ • → ˇ (
dead key) • → ^ (
dead key) • → ˘ (
dead key) • → ° (
dead key) • → ˛ (
dead key) • → ` • → ˙ (
dead key) • → ´ (
dead key) • → ˝ (
dead key) • → ¨ (
dead key) • → ¸ (
dead key) : South Slavic
cyrillic keyboards use a different layout.
Spain keyboard layout • → \ • → | • → @ • → # • → ~ • → ¬ • → €
Switzerland On Swiss keyboards, AltGr in combination with the following keys types the following characters: • → ¦ • → @ • → # • → ° • → § • → ¬ • → | • → ¢ • → \ • → € • → ´ (
dead key) • → ~ (
dead key) • / → [ (See explanation below) • → ] • / → { (See explanation below) • → }
Switzerland has four national Languages (
German,
French,
Italian, and
Romansh). The Swiss keyboard layout is therefore designed with compatibility in mind for all four languages. In
German-speaking and
Romansh-speaking Switzerland (as well as the
Czech Republic), the Swiss German layout is used, while in the French-speaking and Italian-speaking Switzerland, the Swiss French layout is used. The two layouts only differ on three keys—OEM1, OEM5, and OEM7. On the Swiss German layout, these three keys are labelled , , and , respectively, while on the Swiss French layout, the labels are inverted as , , and ; namely, the base layer and the layer are swapped. However, with respect to the layer, the region-specific layouts are irrelevant. Swiss German: → { Swiss French: → {
Turkey In Turkish keyboard variants the AltGr can be used to display the following characters: • → æ • → ß • → € • →
₺ • → @ • → i • a → ã • a → ä • a → á • a → à
Ukraine In Ukrainian (enhanced) keyboard, added in
Windows Vista, combination (or as it is written in Cyrillic keyboards gives letter ґ and Ґ.
United Kingdom and Ireland • → á and Á • → é and É • → í and Í • → ó and Ó • → ú and Ú • → € • → \ • → ¦ In
UK and
Ireland keyboard layouts, only two alternative use symbols are printed on most keyboards, which require the AltGr key to function. These are: •
€ the
euro sign. Located on the "4/$" key. •
¦ the
broken bar symbol. Located on the "`/¬" key, to the immediate left of "1". Using the AltGr key on
Linux produces many other characters and symbols, e.g. {{not a typo|¹²³€½{[]}@łe¶ŧ←↓→øþæßðđŋħjĸł«»¢“”nµΩŁE®Ŧ¥↑ıØÞƧЪŊĦJ&Ł<>©‘’Nº×÷·}} (If reconfigured as a
compose key, an even larger repertoire is available). With the UK extended keyboard setting (
below),
ChromeOS offers a
large repertoire of symbols and
precomposed characters.
Scotland and Wales For the diacritics used by
Welsh (ŵ and ŷ) and
Scottish Gaelic (à, è, ì, ò and ù), the UK extended keyboard setting is needed. This makes available (for circumflex accent) and (for grave accent) as dead keys.
UK extended keyboard layout The
UK-Extended keyboard mapping (available with Microsoft Windows, Linux and ChromeOS) allows many characters with
diacritical marks (including those used in other European countries) to be generated by using the AltGr key,
dead keys or a
compose key, in combination with others. }}||_ - ||+ = Notes: Dotted circle (◌) is used here to indicate a dead key, invoked using AltGr. The (
grave accent) key is the only one that acts as a free-standing dead key and thus does not respond as shown on the key-cap. (For a complete list of the characters generated using dead keys, see
QWERTY#ChromeOS.) (°) is a
degree sign; (º) is a masculine
ordinal indicator. is an
em-dash; there is no provision for
en-dash.
United States Most keyboards sold in the US do not have an (engraved) key. However, if there is a right-hand key it will act as if a layout using it is installed (conversely a foreign keyboard will act like the right-hand if the standard US keyboard layout is installed).
US-International Microsoft provides a
US-International keyboard layout that uses (or right-hand or ) key to produce more characters: : Red characters are
dead keys; for example
ä can be entered with . Other operating systems such as
Linux and
ChromeOS follow this layout but increase the repertoire of
glyphs provided. == X Window System ==