Making accents on lower-case letters with a MAC
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" = œ alt "'" = æ alt "s" = ß alt shift + "?" = ¿ alt "1" = ¡ alt "n" + n = ñ |
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Making accents with a PC Use the "US-International" keyboard option in all Windows operating systems from 95 to XP. Here are four "how to" explanations
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/LangStudy/US- InternationalLayout.html For Windows XP users: http://www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger/keyboard/keyboard_xp.htm http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306560 |
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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 If you prefer your own Windows Character Map, Here is how to get to it:
Within "Start", go to "Programs". Within "Programs", go to "Accessories". Within "Accessories", go to "Character Map". Here is an explanation of the Character Map Utility for Windows XP: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/charmap.html GERMAN http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/german.html How about making accents in a Microsoft Word document? http://language.la.psu.edu/tell/workshops/accents_in_word/ |
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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 |