Re: Scripts
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 4:47 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>Jake X wrote:
>> And someone tell me, is it possible to type
>> these special characters (and letters with diacritics) on a regular
American
>> QWERTY keyboard? I'm new to all this, and I'm _DYING_ to type an umlaut
or
>> two. ;)
>
>Yes. If you're on a windows machine, you can go into control panel,
>"keyboard", "Language", and double-click on the listed item and change
>the layout to "United States-International", or you can add another
>"language" and make that use United States-International, that's what I
>do, I have English (United States) to use the regular keyboard, and
>English (Canadian) to use international.
>
>Once you have international keyboard selected, then all you need to do
>is type a ' followed by the vowel to make an accented
vowel..(snip)..........þ
>is ctrl+alt+t, ð is ctrl+alt+d, æ is ctrl+alt+z, å is ctrl+alt+w, ø is
>ctrl+alt+l (ell) ........(snip the rest)
Well, something new every lesson. ctrl-alt-t for Þþ etc.... amazing. I went
to the US Intl. keyboard long ago, but only knew about using Right
Alt......or Left Alt plus numeric code (for which I've made a little list.)
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