international characters on qwerty-kbd?

[James Coplin]

What Christian said.  I do this for my Chinese (two kinds) and French and
it works fine.

James R. Coplin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Christian Borg
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:49 AM
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: international characters on qwerty-kbd?
>
> 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 ЬКАЛ etc ...  (i didn't take ДЖЭъ
> > 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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