| Making
accents and some other extended ascii characters on lower-case letters
with a MAC alt "e" + vowel = á, é, í, ó, ú alt "`" + vowel = à, è, ì, ò,ù alt "i" + vowel = ê, â, î, ô, û alt "u" + vowel = ä, ë, ï, ö, ü alt "c" = ç alt "a" = å alt "o" = ø alt "q" = Ï alt "'" = æ alt "s" = ß alt shift + "?" = ¿ alt "1" = ¡ alt "n" + n = ñ another explnation? http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html |
| Making
accents with a PC Use the "US-International" keyboard option in all Windows operating systems Here are "how to" explanations http://www.cortland.edu/icc/KEYBOARD.HTML How to use the United States-International keyboard layout in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, and in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560 Non-English Keyboards - Windows XP http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/winkey.html |
All right! So the guy who installed Windows for you did not install all those great keyboards. You still have other tools for making accented letters. You can use three-digit alt codes for Windows: (CAUTION: "Num lock" MUST be ON): http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/accents.htm or if you want to learn everything about making accents, including four-digit alt codes for Windows, you can go to the following sites: http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm Here is an explanation of the Character Map Utility for Windows XP and Vista: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/charmap.html How about those problematic GERMAN Letters? http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/german.html How do I get letters with accent marks in Microsoft word? http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000657.htm |
| Now
that you have mastered the art of producing accented letters directly
in any interface, here are the codes for these in HTML: Special HTML Characters - Otherwise known as iso8859-1 http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm |