2008/3/31, Johnny Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/3/29, Matt Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Can you please tell me how to obtain foreign characters, (e.g. > > cedillas, accents, etc,) without going into windows ecplorer character > > map. Is ther a way of doing it from within the word processor? > > > > Bernard Davis > > > Long time since using Windows now, but isn't it something like > Alt+[decimal > character code starting with zero]? > > I don't know if this goes for any keyboard, but on my keyboards, which are > Swedish, there are keys with dead characters like ´, `, ^, ˇ, ¨ and ~. To > obtain a ñ, first hit ~, then n. Or à by hitting ` and then a. But maybe > not > all keyboards have those keys? > > And, once again I am not sure about Windows, but I defined my own keyboard > layout, so I now have 4 different characters on most keys (I put labels on > my keys so I won't forget which key is what), so I just use the AltGr key > (is this a standard key or is it only available on Swedish keyboards?) and > Shift key to call the different characters. I even have symbols on my > arrow > keys, such as ←, ↓, → and ↑, and they still work also as just arrow keys > (when not using the AltGr key). > > > J.R.
Johnny, what symbols do you see when you perform «Alt Gr + arrow keys» ? On my keyboard, a standard Scandinavian 105-keyboard, and with the Ubuntu Hardy beta set to Swedish as the standard language, holding down the «Alt Gr» key and pressing the arrow tangents results in precisely the same operations being performed as when pressing the arrow tangents without holding down «Alt Gr».... Henri
