There are two ways you can insert or type foreign
language characters or accents. I do it for German.
Using ASCII codes you can type a code and get the
character you want. My dad used to keep an ASCII
chart next to his monitor to do this with German.
In MS products (Office) and I assume WordPerfect
(although it was done differently) and Open
Office you use insert symbol and then use the
chart to insert the symbol you want.
Again I use this method when in Office to insert
foreign language characters. It gets fun in
Hebrew and Greek when you need to do this.
Stewart
At 12:23 PM 4/24/2008, you wrote:
I can type accents, cedillas, umlauts, tildas,
etc. on my US keyboard--so can you. I can switch
keyboard language configurations with one simple
keyboard command. I wouldn't buy a strictly
azerty keyboard/notebook. Azerty is Belgian. If
you can wait until July, I'll check when I'm in
France to see what's sold. [
ç á è ö ñ å ø ] Where is this person? In
France? Belgium? Quebec? Be sure they know they
can get a keyboard skin with different keyboard
layout than what's built-in when they want to
switch. Are you sure they're not
bilingual/trilingual? Many people outside the US are.
If they never leave the house, sure, consider
the azerty keyboard version [ask them first],
but they're likely to share the notebook when
vacationing in Ibiza or Izmir. Or they might
leave the notebook at home and use Internet
cafés with local keyboards and be confused by those keyboards.
Are the novice computer users ready to deal with
Linux? Is it user friendly enough? Can they get
support? eeepc is very portable. Is it big
enough for home use? Good choice of software, though.
Betty
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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