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Chapter 1— Learning About the Terminal
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3 Type an alphabetic character. The letter appears as an uppercase
character on the terminal’s screen. For example, press
F
to type an
uppercase letter F. Caps Lock remains enabled until you disable it.
To type a lowercase letter with Caps Lock enabled
• Press
?
and an alphabetic character. For example, press
? F
to type a
lowercase letter f.
To disable Caps Lock
1
Press
)
. The Function Left icon appears on the terminal’s screen.
2
Press
Z
. The Caps Lock icon and the Function Left icon turn off.
3 Type an alphabetic character. The letter appears as a lowercase letter on
the terminal’s screen.
Using the Western European Keypad
You can order the 242X with a Western European alphanumeric keypad
that supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Like the English alphanumeric keypad, you use the Western European
keypad to enter all the characters printed on or above the keys. For help,
see “Typing the Characters Printed on the Keypad” on page 17. You can
also use the international keypad to type characters with diacritical marks.
Note: Although the English alphanumeric keypad does not show all the
characters that are available on the Western European keypad, you can
type the same characters on either keypad.
To type characters with a diacritical mark
1
Press
(
. The Function Right icon appears on the terminal’s screen.
2
Press the function key that the diacritical mark appears above. For
example, press
#
to type the umlaut (¨).
To Type Press
ˆ (circumflex)
!
` (grave)
@
¨ (umlaut)
#
´ (acute)
$
~ (tilde)
%
A special Function Right icon appears with a third line to indicate that a
diacritical mark is stored in the keypad buffer.
To flush the diacritical mark from the keypad buffer without entering
any key, press
(
twice. The icons turn off.