Using French & Spanish letters on a US keyboard

G

Guest

I have a laptop Inspiron 9200 with a US keyboard. I would like to be able to
use the "ALT" key to be able to type French or Spanich letters... For
example: pressing ALT and 130 at the same time should give me "é" (when my
Num LK is ON of course) but it does not work!!! I think my ALT key is working
properly but not sure about my NUM LK although the light is on...

How can I test my NUK LK to see if it works properly?

and/or is there a particular setting I am supposed to do to get this thing
working?

Thank you all
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

Use the 'Embedded Numeric Keypad' as illustrated here:
http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/systems/pcyp/computer.htm#numeric_keypad

Example:
Press: Fn + Alt + J + O + U = ñ
The Embedded Numeric Pad has blue numerals or characters
and is located in the right center area of your Inspiron keyboard.

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| I have a laptop Inspiron 9200 with a US keyboard. I would like to be able to
| use the "ALT" key to be able to type French or Spanich letters... For
| example: pressing ALT and 130 at the same time should give me "é" (when my
| Num LK is ON of course) but it does not work!!! I think my ALT key is working
| properly but not sure about my NUM LK although the light is on...
|
| How can I test my NUK LK to see if it works properly?
|
| and/or is there a particular setting I am supposed to do to get this thing
| working?
|
| Thank you all
 
G

Guest

After 3 months of asking everybody and anybody... Carey, thanks a million!!!
It works!
 
M

Mikhail Zhilin

BTW, you can change the keyboard layout from US to International: then
if you press ", or ', or ~ signs followed by the letter a, n etc. --
you'll get the accented a, n etc. letters. But to print the mentioned
signs themselves -- you'll have to press SPACE after them then.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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S

Stan Brown

:
| I have a laptop Inspiron 9200 with a US keyboard. I would like to be able to
| use the "ALT" key to be able to type French or Spanich letters... For
| example: pressing ALT and 130 at the same time should give me "é" (when my
| Num LK is ON of course) but it does not work!!! I think my ALT key is working
| properly but not sure about my NUM LK although the light is on...
Use the 'Embedded Numeric Keypad' as illustrated here:
http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/systems/pcyp/computer.htm#numeric_keypad

Example:
Press: Fn + Alt + J + O + U = ñ
The Embedded Numeric Pad has blue numerals or characters
and is located in the right center area of your Inspiron keyboard.

Shouldn't that be Fn + Alt + M + J + O + U ?

(I believe with a real numeric keypad, you need Alt-0134 not Alt-
134; but I don't have a real numeric keypad so I can't check.)
 
J

Juan I. Cahis

A lot easier:

Go to the control panel and install the "US International" keyboard
driver as your only keyboard driver. Then, if you want to type the
accented a, you simply type 'a, the accent will be a not displacing
sign. The same is for `, ~, and ^. Examples: á ô è ñ.

And what happens if you want to type only the ~ sign? Simply, you type
~ and a space, that is all!!!

Lili said:
I have a laptop Inspiron 9200 with a US keyboard. I would like to be able to
use the "ALT" key to be able to type French or Spanich letters... For
example: pressing ALT and 130 at the same time should give me "é" (when my
Num LK is ON of course) but it does not work!!! I think my ALT key is working
properly but not sure about my NUM LK although the light is on...

How can I test my NUK LK to see if it works properly?

and/or is there a particular setting I am supposed to do to get this thing
working?

Thank you all

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
 
K

Ken Blake

In
Lili said:
I have a laptop Inspiron 9200 with a US keyboard. I would like
to be
able to use the "ALT" key to be able to type French or Spanich
letters... For example: pressing ALT and 130 at the same time
should
give me "é" (when my Num LK is ON of course) but it does not
work!!!
I think my ALT key is working properly but not sure about my
NUM LK
although the light is on...

How can I test my NUK LK to see if it works properly?

and/or is there a particular setting I am supposed to do to get
this
thing working?


I'm not sure what your problem is, but let me suggest an
alternative (and I think, better) way to accomplish this.

I use a little freeware background program called AllChars. This
lets me (in all applications, not just OE) 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/
 
G

Gilles Ronsin

Lili avait écrit le 10/03/2005 :
I have a laptop Inspiron 9200 with a US keyboard. I would like to be able to
use the "ALT" key to be able to type French or Spanich letters... For
example: pressing ALT and 130 at the same time should give me "é" (when my
Num LK is ON of course) but it does not work!!! I think my ALT key is working
properly but not sure about my NUM LK although the light is on...

How can I test my NUK LK to see if it works properly?

and/or is there a particular setting I am supposed to do to get this thing
working?

Thank you all

If you know position key on french keyboard, you can use the french
driver in keyboard option. And learn to write without look at your
keyboard :)
 

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