Re: foreign language accent marks

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:10:45 -0400, Jeff Zeitlin
<> wrote:

>
>On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:13:49 +0100, Dominic Payer <>
>wrote:
>
>>Find Character Map in your Windows Accessories/Tools menu and note and
>>remember the Alt+numeric sequence for the accented characters you need
>>in the fonts you use.
>>
>>The numbers in the sequences must be entered on the right hand numeric
>>keypad not the numeric keys above the keyboard letters.
>
>This is not going to always be possible - for example, my Dell Inspiron
>laptop does not have a numeric keypad, not even via the special Fn key
>like my previous Toshiba did. I therefore cannot enter characters using
>the Alt-numeric codes.

There are more ways to get accents and things. I use Vista, and this works on
Seven as well (and I think on XP too). I my language set to English and the
keyboard US International. No need for fingerbreaking keypad combinations ;-)

To enable accents, I press Left Shift + Left Ctrl (press them both to switch
on the feature and then let go).
Now if I type " followed by e, I get ë.

To disable, I press Left Shift + Left Ctrl.
Now if I type " followed by e, I get "e

I found this by accident as I was messing around with the keycombinations
while using the Japanese IME. I noticed my accents were gone, but then thought
that I had been pushing a bunch of keycombinations on the bottom left of my
keyboard, and then pushed and pushed till I found them. Maybe an online search
would have helped me find the answer straight away, but you know, men don't
like to read manuals ;-)

Hope this helps

jud

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:18:25 +0100, Jud Hendrix <> wrote:

>There are more ways to get accents and things. I use Vista, and this works on
>Seven as well (and I think on XP too). I my language set to English and the
>keyboard US International. No need for fingerbreaking keypad combinations ;-)

Yes, I noted this in an earlier post; I've been using this method on my
own computers since Windows98SE. Much simpler to deal with; the only
time I have problems is when I need to find a less-common accent mark,
such as the Hungarian double-acute accent, for which I use the Character
Map.