international characters on qwerty-kbd?

[Christian Borg]

In case of several languages, first set up the languages in the Control Panel (Keyboard 
Languages).
Make sure they are available from the taskbar (or the shortcut is "Left-Alt + Shift").

Then use the "On-Screen Keyboard" for an overview while typing. Or press the character 
from there. The layout changes depending on selected language (though sometimes when using 
the shortcut it doesn't. In that case change it from the taskbar.)

.christian

Michael Zacherl skrev 2012-08-28 12:07:
> 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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