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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:05:33 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:00:25 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

I have one way up in my laptop's top menu that I can open with a tap with
every odd character in a given font displayed. Tap it to insert in text.
But the ones I need for German I have long since memorized -- and they're
still the same two-stroke combination I used on the Apple//e lo! These many
years ago 8-)


You might be interested in the little freeware background program I
use and recommend called AllChars. This lets me type many common
special characters (many of these are used in other languages) very
easily, by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two-character mnemonic
combination.

As examples of how easy they are to remember, for Ó the two characters
are ~ and n. For Ú it's c and , For Ø it's u and "

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

Mine is PopChar; i've been using its improving incarnations since Mac II
days. It's one of the only three software programs I use that has
regularly instituted upgrades without dumping features I had more use for
than some new bells and whistles.


A Macintosh program? Sorry, I know next to nothing about the Macintosh
or any programs for it.

--
Ken Blake

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:18:07 +0100, "tim...."
wrote:
Sweden seems to be in the process of losing its umlauted characters
because
so many people have computer keyboards without them

I doubt that. Some years ago I was working with some Windows CE
machines, which only understood US keyboard layouts. The company had
loads of keyboards around, but I only managed to find a single useful
keyboard. Shops only offers Danish keyboards - even my phone has a DK
keyboard.

No reason Sweden should be different.

Johannes Kleese wrote:
Windows has systemwide shortcuts for some keys. ü is Alt + 0252
(hold Alt
and enter the number on the keypad). The three-digit value
following the
zero is the one from the windows-1252 codepage.

I just use my keyboard. All the accents and whatnot have their own
keys. Just press the accent you need, followed by the letter you wish
to "accent" and Bob's your uncle.

Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
Johannes Kleese wrote:
Windows has systemwide shortcuts for some keys. ü is Alt + 0252 (hold Alt
and enter the number on the keypad). The three-digit value following the
zero is the one from the windows-1252 codepage.

I just use my keyboard. All the accents and whatnot have their own keys.
Just press the accent you need, followed by the letter you wish to
"accent" and Bob's your uncle.

My manual typewriter--new in the early '60’s--had a specially-installed
umlaut that cleared the vowels instead of slopping into them like quotation
marks did and an ß made from a repositioned B. It took a bit of explaining
at the store 8-). As a German student and later German teacher, it was a
great help.

Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

On Aug 14, 7:59*pm, Erilar wrote:
Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
Johannes Kleese wrote:
Windows has systemwide shortcuts for some keys. ü is Alt + 0252 (hold Alt
and enter the number on the keypad). The three-digit value following the
zero is the one from the windows-1252 codepage.

I just use my keyboard. All the accents and whatnot have their own keys..
Just press the accent you need, followed by the letter you wish to
"accent" and Bob's your uncle.

My manual typewriter--new in the early '60’s--had a specially-installed
umlaut that cleared the vowels instead of slopping into them like quotation
marks did and an ß made from a repositioned B. *It took a bit of explaining
at the store 8-). As a German student and later German teacher, it was a
great help. *

Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

For me, it's simply amazing what Microsoft has done for home computers
with a vastly inferior version of their business programs. With the
full program it was simple just to go under Font and select Symbol and
any special characters for languages, science and math were easily
found on that page and inserted into your document. Now with the home
version of Microsoft Word, even typing a simple communication is
difficult, and I'm lucky that I have a German keyboard, although as
#48 said, using a combination of keys with the mark and the character
is possible and simple.

Of course, there is also the possibility of finding the character
elsewhere on the Internet and copying and pasting, and it's also
possible to define keys to give you those characters that you use
commonly.

George

martin ****ed on it.


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On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:37:16 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:05:33 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:00:25 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

I have one way up in my laptop's top menu that I can open with a tap
with
every odd character in a given font displayed. Tap it to insert in
text.
But the ones I need for German I have long since memorized -- and
they're
still the same two-stroke combination I used on the Apple//e lo! These
many
years ago 8-)


You might be interested in the little freeware background program I
use and recommend called AllChars. This lets me type many common
special characters (many of these are used in other languages) very
easily, by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two-character mnemonic
combination.

As examples of how easy they are to remember, for ? the two characters
are ~ and n. For ? it's c and , For ? it's u and "

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

or direct from the makers
http://sourceforge.net/projects/allc...1.msi/download

Warning

Allchars doesn't seem to be compatible with Win7. I got error messages
after installing it. After I deleted it I had no more errors.
--

Martin