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------------------------------ Accents & special characters - Windows To type accented letters and other symbols on Windows you can use the numeric codes listed below. These should work in any program. *How it works:* To type a lower case letter with an acute accent on it (*á é í ó ú*) you can: - Hold down the *alt* key then type the numeric code on the number pad. [image: Codes for typing accented letters] [image: Codes for typing other special characters] Click here to download an Excel spreadsheet of these codes<http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/accents_win.xls> Other key combinations Hold down the accent key plus the letter: Apostrophe (') + letter (a,e,i,o,u) = acute accent (á,é,í,ó,ú) Slant apostrophe (`) + letter (a,e,i,o,u) = grave accent (à,è,ì,ò,ù) Quote marks (") + letter (a,e,i,o,u) = umlaut (ä,ë,ï,ö,ü) Circumflex (^) + letter (a,e,i,o,u)= circumflex (â,ê,î,ô,û) Note: you have to switch your keyboard layout to United States-International for this method to work. See http://www.lrc.salemstate.edu/aske/accents.htmfor details of how to do this. You can also assign requently-used letters to particular key combinations. Links Orthographic diacritics and multilingual computing http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/dia/diacritics-revised.htm Typing International Accent Marks and Diacriticals http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html International characters http://www.lrc.salemstate.edu/keyboard.htm Character finder - a site where you can find out which accented letters or other characters are used in which language(s), and other useful information about characters, fonts and unicode: http://transliteration.eki.ee/ Click here <http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/diacrits_win.htm> to find out how to type ligatures in Windows<http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/diacrits_win.htm#win>, Mac <http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/index.htm#diacrits> and HTML<http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/diacrits_html.htm#html> http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/diacrits_win.htm#win --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
