international characters on qwerty-kbd?

[Marek Szulen]

*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...*
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*Marek
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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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