before the keyboard diversions, I'd like to point out that the Duke-UVa topic had been 100% diverted to the unc-uva topic, FWIW.
And hey, indeed the shift above the period key does in fact work, but there is no symbol there whatsoever, not even a worn one.
Same for the "less than" symbol above the comma...Dell must've been short of paint that day...thanks to you keen observers at home...