Keyboard Layout and International Accent Marks
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1 comment | January 17th, 2007 | Trackback
So you always have your laptop with you wherever you go but, you know what? Due to some unforseeable circumstance, you might one day have to use someone else’s computer. Just wish that if that should happen, you’d be in a country where they use the same keyboard layout that you are used to.
I grew up on QWERTY but had to get used to QWERTZ when I was expatriated to Frankfurt. I have faced AZERTY in France, QZERTY in Italy. But my powers of adapting is limited to keyboard layouts only. Non-Roman Alphabetic scripts on keyboards would be impossible.
Anyway…
Using a different keyboard layout than what you are used to takes a bit more of your time. You need to look for some characters and use the backspace a lot. The only problem you might face with a different keyboard layout is when you need to type a special character that does NOT exist in the current keyboard layout that you are using. What then?!
Why that’s easy peasy lemon squeezy!
All you need is a cheat sheet of International Accent Marks and Diacriticals: ALT Key Codes & Charts.
via LifeHacker
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I saw a freeware on http://www.jlg-utilities.com that allows to extend the QWERTY keyboard and make the accents without modifying the existing layout.
for instance, you can do all characters with accent:
é = CTRL + ‘, then e
ŷ = CTRL + ^, then y
…
but also mathematic characters.
∀ = CTRL + %, then A (mirror effect)
± = ALTGR + +, then -
All special characters are very easy to remember.