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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 810319" data-attributes="member: 4134">^ is the traditional notation for Control, which has been used for years. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation" target="_blank">Caret notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Microsoft prefers to use &quot;Ctrl&quot;, but Apple has always used symbols for its menus, both to stay language-neutral, and to save space.For what it's worth:⌥ is Option⌘ is Command↩ is Return, which should never be confused with the Enter key, ⌤, (the one on the Numeric pad at the far right of a desktop keyboard; it's fn+return on a portable keyboard.)⌫ is the Delete key, which should never be confused with the Forward Delete key, ⌦,&nbsp; (which must be entered as fn+⌫ on a portable)⇧ is the Shift key; it's hollow, unlike the up-arrow key (Which would be ↑, along with the other arrow keys (↓, →, and ←)Finally, ⎋ is the Escape (esc) key. Even I don't know which ones are the Home/End and Page Up/Page Down keys. They're something like ⇤ and ⇥, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="technologist, post: 810319, member: 4134"] ^ is the traditional notation for Control, which has been used for years. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation]Caret notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] Microsoft prefers to use "Ctrl", but Apple has always used symbols for its menus, both to stay language-neutral, and to save space. For what it's worth: ⌥ is Option ⌘ is Command ↩ is Return, which should never be confused with the Enter key, ⌤, (the one on the Numeric pad at the far right of a desktop keyboard; it's fn+return on a portable keyboard.) ⌫ is the Delete key, which should never be confused with the Forward Delete key, ⌦, (which must be entered as fn+⌫ on a portable) ⇧ is the Shift key; it's hollow, unlike the up-arrow key (Which would be ↑, along with the other arrow keys (↓, →, and ←) Finally, ⎋ is the Escape (esc) key. Even I don't know which ones are the Home/End and Page Up/Page Down keys. They're something like ⇤ and ⇥, though. [/QUOTE]

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