Re: Scripts

Jake X wrote:
> Sorry to be naive, but how is þ pronounced? Is it the unvoiced counterpart
> of thorn, like the IPA eth?
Þ is thorn, it's the voiceless consonant, eth is ð, it's the voiced one.

> 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, such as á,
" plus vowel for umlaut ä, ` + vowel for à, ~ + vowel or n for ã/õ/ñ.  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) ´ is ctrl+alt+' ñ can also be typed as ctrl+alt+n, µ is
ctrl+alt+m ç can be typed by ' followed by c or by ctrl-alt-, ¿ is
ctrl-alt-/ ¡ is ctrl-alt-1 (one).  To make a simple apostrophe or
quotation marks, you just have to hit space bar (or a character that
can't be accented) after the ' or ".  That's why I have two languages
set up, so that when I don't need to type characters like é, I don't
have to remember to type {'} {space} {e} for 'e.

Also, you can open up character map, which should be in your accesories
folder, to find out how to type any other character in the windows
character set, by using alt plus a four digit code, for example, ° is
alt-0176 (hold down alt the whole time).  Oh, and only left alt.

Oh, I just discovered that all those ctrl+alt's up there can be done
with just right-alt.

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