I wish to share a solution for a change. Today, I was able to install 9 letters with diacriticals above them. Since there are many from other countries JOINING OUR RANKS where they MUST use such characters, this is altogether possible. My Win 7 is now set so that when I press the tilde/grave key, it turns the numbers 1 through 8 plus the equals key into my special letters that I must use when typing Lithuanian. It's easiest for me to simply hit the grave key when I first start typing and then I can use them at will as well as the regular English alphabet. Lithuanian was listed in the list of countries supporting this feature in Microsoft.
For those interested, here is how I did it: Add an input language for Windows 7 You can edit documents in multiple languages by changing the language (the input language) in which you type. Input languages are included with Windows, but you need to add them to your list of languages before you can use them. 1. Click on Region and Language. 2. Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, and then click Change keyboards. 3. Under Installed services, click Add. 4. Double-click the language you want to add, double-click the text services you want to add, select the text services options you want to add, and then click OK. Here is a graphic of Eugenijus needs to check in order to make the keyboard work the way you want: Use Shift plus Alt to toggle between Lithuanian and English Most of the top row produces the LT letters in alphabetical order. Use shift plus one of the top row keys to get a capital letter. ********************************************* Another person added this so that I can use the grave/tilde key to switch back and forth rather than any 2-key combination. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12578/add-keyboard-languages-to-xp-vista-and- windows-7/ Near the end of the article it explains how to select a hot key to switch from ENG. to LIT. It's under the Advanced Settings tab. I suggest setting it to use the grave/tilde key (`) by itself. It's easy to find (left of the 1 key). The example in the above link shows a XP screen, which did not have the option of using the acute key. After completing the procedure you should be able to toggle between ENG. and LIT and type the top row 12345678, = then toggle to LIT and type the top row but now see àèæëáðøûþ With cap lock on you would see ÀÈÆËÁÐØÛÞ If you're using the ~ (tilde), no problemo. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Dettlaff Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Letters with diacriticals: Outlook and Word 2010 Hi, I have had similar problems before, although not with Word or Outlook. The problem then was that the person I was sending data to was not using the same character set that I was, and theirs did not support letters with accents. I know Windows has settings for which character sets it uses, but I do not remember where this is set. Does anyone else know? -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Liuda Sent: June 12, 2014 04:54 PM To: Jaws Users Subject: [JAWS-Users] Letters with diacriticals: Outlook and Word 2010 I am having quite a problem. I must use letters with accents above them. It appears that when my documents and e-mail messages are transmitted, the diacriticals and perhaps letters get all messed up. What settings should be adjusted to alleviate this problem? When a message comes in, I sometimes hear that the message was converted to plain text. Also, I think I compose in html. Thanks in advance for all assistance in solving this problem. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
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