Inserting International(French) Characters

[Lew Jack]

I have tried unsuccessfully to insert French characters
(ACCENTS, GRAVES etc)using the recognised keyboard
commands. I have checked that my keyboard setting is
correctly set at "English - United Kingdom". I have the
same problem when typing in Appleworks V.5 for Windows.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Accents and diacriticals in your computer
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/spanport/keyboard.html#xp

Keyboard shortcuts for international characters
Press:
CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
à, è, ì, ò, ù,
À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù
CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, ý
Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý
CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û
Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û
CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter
ã, ñ, õ
Ã, Ñ, Õ
CTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ,
Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, Y
CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
å, Å
CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A
æ, Æ
CTRL+SHIFT+&, o or O
o, O
CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
ç, Ç
CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D
ð, Ð
CTRL+/, o or O
ø, Ø
ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+?
¿
ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+!
¡
CTRL+SHIFT+&, s
ß

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I have tried unsuccessfully to insert French characters
| (ACCENTS, GRAVES etc)using the recognised keyboard
| commands. I have checked that my keyboard setting is
| correctly set at "English - United Kingdom". I have the
| same problem when typing in Appleworks V.5 for Windows.
|
| Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I have tried unsuccessfully to insert French characters
(ACCENTS, GRAVES etc)using the recognised keyboard
commands. I have checked that my keyboard setting is
correctly set at "English - United Kingdom". I have the
same problem when typing in Appleworks V.5 for Windows.

There are several ways to do this. I use a little freeware
background program called AllChars. This lets me type many common
special characters (many of these are used in other languages) by
pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic
combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c
and , For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/

 

[Brian]

In


There are several ways to do this. I use a little freeware
background program called AllChars. This lets me type many common
special characters (many of these are used in other languages) by
pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic
combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c
and , For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/

As a professional translator with a UK keyboard, I have always used the Alt
130 = é principle. However, at your suggestion, I downloaded AllChars and
must agree that it looks really useful.

Many thanks,

Brian

 

[Ken Blake]

In

As a professional translator with a UK keyboard, I have always used
the Alt 130 = é principle. However, at your suggestion, I downloaded
AllChars and must agree that it looks really useful.

Glad you like it. Alt + number keys works, of course, but it's
harder to remember what to type. It's nice to have mnemonic
keystrokes for this. It's much easier to remember Ctrl e ' than
Alt-130.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have tried unsuccessfully to insert French characters
(ACCENTS, GRAVES etc)using the recognised keyboard
commands. I have checked that my keyboard setting is
correctly set at "English - United Kingdom".

Those recognised commands (and I am not sure who they are 'recognised'
by) are not in the UK keyboard driver. One approach is to set up as an
alternative to use the United States (International) one, and set a key
combination to switch layouts. The two will differ over such things a £
and # and " and @ for example, but the US International supports dead
key combinations for accents - eg ¬ (~ in the US layout - shift on the
top left key) then n for ñ or ' then e for é

 

[Charles Sarget]

Have you tried Control Panel/Regional and Language Options/
Languages tab/Details button/ and selected languages to add to
the drop-down list? You may have to fiddle with the Languages Bar
button, but you should get a button to appear as part of the System
Tray which you can use to select a language character set. With
French selected, éèçà are uppercase numeric keys, ô is uppercase
"{" followed by o. I haven't figured out how to handle capitals
with accents.

#ChuckS#

 

[Opinicus]

"{" followed by o. I haven't figured out how to handle capitals
with accents.

Tools > Options > Edit > (x) Allow accented uppercase in French.

(Word 2002 with SP-2)

YMMV

 

[Charles Sarget]

Have you tried Control Panel/Regional and Language Options/
Languages tab/Details button/ and selected languages to add to
the drop-down list? You may have to fiddle with the Languages Bar
button, but you should get a button to appear as part of the System
Tray which you can use to select a language character set. With
French selected, éèçà are uppercase numeric keys, ô is uppercase
"{" followed by o. I haven't figured out how to handle capitals
with accents.

#ChuckS#