Re: Using Diacritics

Joseph Bridwell wrote:

> > And if one could do this sort of thing in Word, that'd be even
>
> Okay, I hope these all come through okay.
>
> CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
> à, è, ì, ò, ù,
> À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù
>
(snip)

Hmm.  I've never worked with Word, but am about to. I hate to think I'm
going to have to learn new key-strokes...

Another way to get all these standard accented characters is to set your
keyboard to US International, which makes `/~, ^, and '/" into dead keys--
you type e.g. (single quote)+a  and get á; (shift quote)+a > ä.  (Of course,
if you actaully want 'or "", you have to hit quote=spacebar).  The same
range of characters, and others, is available by using (SHIFT) RIGHT ALT +
various keys-- RIGHT ALT + t gives þ. Shift-Alt-t gives Þ

This new computer, which I'm still figuring it out (XP and some kind of
Office Write program), has a goodly amount of Unicode available thru
Insert - Special Characters; that brings up a map of everything available in
the given font, which you can then insert.  It also, very kindly, gives the
Unicode number of the selected character.  There must be a way to put
unusual diacritics on letters, but I haven't found it.  The fonts do contain
many precomposed things, like vowel+macron or breve, ogonek, accented
consonants etc.  Lots of Cyrillic stuff too, which I don't use.........plus
Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and phonetic.

There doesn't seem to be a way to insert special characters in Notepad....if
there is, someone please tell me how!! (Keep in mind that I'm
near-illiterate computerwise, especially w.r.t. my new system)

Compared to what was available on my old Win98/Corel WP8 system, it's
flabbergasting.