international characters on qwerty-kbd?

[Michael Zacherl]

thanks Marek, since she's from Poland I reckon that she's doing that already.
But I'll check that. Do you have a polish keyboard available?
I think using an extra program which alters the keys on the fly temporarily would be ok, I think.

The ALT+code method just does not work, I tried that. Besides remembering all the codes is not really feasible.

I looked at the keyboard and I didn't find the accents which are necessary for french and spanish, for instance.
Tilde (~) and Trema (¨) are also unavailable. And so on ...
Currently she's copying and pasting from a document, which is bad for the workflow. 


On 28.8.2012, at 12:12 , Marek Szulen wrote:

> In case of Polish it shouldn't be a problem when you set the keyboard as "polish programmer". Then you get polish diactrics just holding down the right ALT and pressing corresponding letters like L for Ł or O for Ó etc. and you can still write in english too (as no diactrics).
> However, I don't know how to make it more universal (probably as you said - the old way..) without changing the kbd layout every time...
> 
> Marek
> 
> 2012/8/28 Michael Zacherl <mubar04 at blauwurf.at>
> Hey!
> A friend has got a Vista-laptop (small, old Vaio) with a QWERTY keyboard.
> Since she's writing in Polish, Spanish, English and German getting international characters is a real pain for her.
> I searched for a solution, but I didn't find anything useful, just this ancient hold ALT-and-type-the-ASCII-code-on-the-number-pad trick.
> First this laptop has no number pad and second ...WTF??  (read "usability?")
> 
> On my Mac I relatively easily can compose characters which I don't have directly on the keyboard,
> like øëáì etc ...  (i didn't take äöüß as an example since I got them on my kbd ;-)
> 
> However, I'd really like to help her - maybe you've got a neat idea how to get the characters needed for those languages without braking the flow?
> thanks a lot - Michael.
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