Foreign characters on US keyboard

[Guest]

I am using a US keyboard but need to access some European characters. I have tried using the Danish keyboard layout, and that works fine for most of the characters. However, since a normal Scandinavian keyboard physically contain more keys there are some few characters that are not available to me. Unfortunately, it is the ones that are used quite regularly.
Now, I am wondering whether one can reassign certain keys to other than the default characters.

I have asked about this earlier and got the reply that I could just use the US International keyboard. I have tried that and made Danish the input language. It does not make any difference - the same keys are missing. As I see it, I need to remap certain keys so they produce another character than the default for the keyboard driver.

Any help will be much appreciated.


Regards,

Frank M.

 

[John McGaw]

I am using a US keyboard but need to access some European characters. I

have tried using the Danish keyboard layout, and that works fine for most of
the characters. However, since a normal Scandinavian keyboard physically
contain more keys there are some few characters that are not available to
me. Unfortunately, it is the ones that are used quite regularly.

Now, I am wondering whether one can reassign certain keys to other than the default characters.

I have asked about this earlier and got the reply that I could just use

the US International keyboard. I have tried that and made Danish the input
language. It does not make any difference - the same keys are missing. As I
see it, I need to remap certain keys so they produce another character than
the default for the keyboard driver.

Any help will be much appreciated.


Regards,

Frank M.

Wouldn't it be easier to just get the proper keyboard for the language you
wish to type? Using reassigned keys will be a real drag and will just teach
you bad typing habits.
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John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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[Guest]

I guess so, but I am already abroad, and I doubt that I will be able to get the right keyboard here. So for next month or it would be nice to have something that works instead of e.g. Alt + 092 to get a backslash (that key has different key that is not present in US keyboard).
But if it is a huge process of setting it up, I guess it is easier to just stick with Alt and numeric keypad or changing to US keyboard now and then.

Next time I come here, I for sure will bring a Danish keyboard.


Regards,

Frank M

----- John McGaw wrote: -----

Wouldn't it be easier to just get the proper keyboard for the language you
wish to type? Using reassigned keys will be a real drag and will just teach
you bad typing habits.

 

[xyz]

You can type accented characters on a US keyboard easily by setting up
the "international" keyboard conventions. On the control panel double
click on "Regional and language options". Select the languages tab
and click on "details". Select the U.S. international keyboard and
click OK.

Type accented characters as follows:

Quote " before a vowel yields umlouts: ä ü
Apostrophe ' before vowels yields acute acents: á é í
Grave ` before vowels yields grave accents à è
Circumflex ^ before vowels yields â ê î
Tilde before n gives ñ
Apostrophe before c gives ç Ç
A single quote or apostrophe is typed by following the keystroke by a
space.

xyz