On 13-12-2004 10:39, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Dec 13, 2004, at 9:42, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
[...] I have a powerbook and its keyboard does not say "option" on the 'alt' key. Instead it has some undeciferable figure on it that should mean "option". So I'm sorry I called it the 'alt' key, but I forgot the proper name at the time. ;-)
I have an older Danish keyboard (december 2001) and a new US keyboard (october 2004), they both spell out “alt” above the ⌥ glyph.
As far as I know the “option” wording is limited to online writings ;)
Indeed, the key also has 'alt' on it. However, the picture on the box of the powerbook has a keyboard which looks like this: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_...
It almost has no glyphs on it at all, even the backspace button says "backspace" ;)
Maybe the difference is more with laptop versus external keyboard than US/Europe (or did I get a European version of the US keyboard?).
While I was browsing the ADC, I also found a picture of the original G5 keyboard layout: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_...
So it seems they either changed it and did not update their documents or you got a European version. (Bit odd they don't document those keyboards for developpers either).
Jeroen.