On 21 juil, 18:51, Glen Holcomb <damnbig... / gmail.com> wrote: > [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Ben Bleything <b... / bleything.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Glen Holcomb wrote: > > > I think your question has confused me however all you need to do to enter > > an > > > @ sign in irb is hold shift and press '2'. You can't have a space > > between > > > the @ and the rest of the token though. > > > This assumes that every keyboard has an @ above the 2, which is not the > > case. The original poster seems to be French. Here's one example of a > > french keyboard layout: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#French > > > There was a thread about this a little while ago. Unfortunately, I > > don't remember what the outcome was. A little search might turn it up! > > > Ben > > Good point. I was thinking the numbers were fairly standard. I still think > the language barrier popped up in the entirety of the question it's self > before I started being Ameri-centric. > > -- > "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak > so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying." > > -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion) Thanks for your information.As a matter of fact I have a swiss keyboard. On the third key I have " (2nd level), 2 and @ on the first level.I use Scite to write my programs and the @ character is acessible.When I switch to irb (in the shell) when I strike on @ nothing happens.It seems that inside irb I should change the keyboard layout ? Hi Brothers, how difficult is the climbing of Babel Tower but how nice is the variety of languages !