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Old Mar 22nd, 2007, 10:45 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by DaWei View Post
I'm mildly surprised that there isn't a dedicated key for it, given its common usage as a path delimiter, as well as (for programming-type users) an escape character.
I believe OS X uses the forward slash character as the standard path delimiter, so perhaps a Norwegian Macbook keyboard doesn't bother with having an easy-to-find backslash, as presumably it's rarely used.
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