international characters on qwerty-kbd?

[Marek Szulen]

*I'm polish too (just living in Netherlands).*
*There's a polish keyboard layout in Mac and PC. Both, my mac and PC have
standard, english keyboard (hardware).*
*I'm just using system settings to choose the layout.*
*For PC and Mac this working polish layout is "Polish Programmers" or
"Polish Pro".*
*That one works 100%*
*On my keyboard ~ and ` are located next to the "1" key and the ' is
located at the same key as "*
*But I don't know  what's hardware layout of her keyboard...*
*
*
*Marek
*

2012/8/28 Michael Zacherl <mubar04 at blauwurf.at>

> 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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