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⌥ is not printed on any key on the Mac I am using, and I am sure ^ on top of 6 is not the ^ parent mentioned. I agree with parent, these are ridiculous.

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They are on non-US apple keyboards, the US keyboards use the text "alt" and "option" and so on.

I've always wondered why they don't put the symbols on the US keyboards yet use them in the UI anyway.

Could be that it's difficult to describe over the phone which keys are alt/option/command/control? "The one with four loops" vs "the one with forking road" would be funny :D

I'm typing this on a (2015/2016) non-US keyboard without them.

It's printed on lots of macbooks? http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/09/15/apple_macbook_air_11in_mid_...

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