The following will instructions change the keyboard for all programs, so
that a "dead key" followed by a relatively intuitive accent key will
produce a variety of foreign accents. In other words typing "^" followed
by "o" will produce "ô". It's made life much simpler for us! Hope it helps -
best,
Joanne Riley
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US-International Keyboard uses the ', `, ~, ^, " as "dead keys", and uses
Right-ALT plus !, ?, and a number of other keys to produce characters not
normally available. The accents are fairly intuitive. Tap the accent dead
key, then tap the vowel for which you want the accent. The ' dead key also
works for the cedilla.
' + e = é
` + e = è
~ + n = ñ
^ + e = ê
" + e = ë
' + c = ç
In Windows 95/98:
1. Go to Start/Control Panel / Keyboard / Language
2. Choose English-United States-International
(through PROPERTIES, not "Add")
With that option, the keyboard operation is slightly modified but the
keyboard does not change for every language (it is useful for German,
Spanish, French and Portuguese, among other European languages, including
English, of course) and it does not interfere with the regular use of the
actual, physical keyboard that you see.
When you type the ~ character (left-hand corner of keyboard), nothing shows
until you type another key. So, if you type ~ and then the letter n, you
get a nice n+tilde output. If you type ~ and then any vowel, you get that
vowel with the tilde on top of it (which is used in Portuguese to represent
nasal vowels). If you type ~ and then the space bar, you get the ~
character. If you type ~ and then any other consonant, you get ~ followed
by that consonant: ~p, for example.
When you type the ' character (center right-hand key of keyboard), nothing
appears until you type another key. Again, if you type any vowel
immediately after typing ' , you get that vowel with an acute accent (the
one used in Spanish and in some French words). If you type the space bar or
any other key, you get the usual simple quotation mark followed by the
consonant or key that was hit afterwards. For example: 'f , or 'g , and so on.
same rules apply for the ` , ^ and " characters: they don't show until you
type another key--they will be combined with vowels and followed by
consonants.
At 02:18 PM 4/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks. Actually, I would love to know how to change the keyboard for all
>Windows programs.
>
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Joanne Riley
Technology Coordinator
The Medici Archive Project
http://www.medici.org
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