international characters on qwerty-kbd?

[Marek Szulen]

*Yeah, *
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*setting multiple keyboard layouts in control panel then just switch
between them using "left alt" + shift.*
*Then right alt to get the national diactrics*
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*should work fine*
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*Marek
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2012/8/28 James Coplin <james at ticalun.net>

> 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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