How Do I Get "dead key" accented letters in XP?

[Keith Snyder]

In Windows 98, there was a way to enable accented letters
by using so-called dead keys. I'm sorry, I've forgotten how it
was done. It was NOT done by using character map.

To explain, I could type a double quote, ", followed by a vowel,
say o, and get a German umlauted o.

Similarly I could type a single quote, ', followed by an e and get
a French e accent aigu.

Enabling dead key foreign letters was a convenience for me.
I need French, German, and Spanish.

Does anybody know how I can do this in XP home edition?

--
Keith

[Nicholas]

Accents and diacriticals in your computer
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/spanport/keyboard.html#xp

Keyboard shortcuts for international characters
Press:
CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
à, è, ì, ò, ù,
À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù
CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, ý
Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý
CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û
Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û
CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter
ã, ñ, õ
Ã, Ñ, Õ
CTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ,
Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, Y
CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
å, Å
CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A
æ, Æ
CTRL+SHIFT+&, o or O
o, O
CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
ç, Ç
CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D
ð, Ð
CTRL+/, o or O
ø, Ø
ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+?
¿
ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+!
¡
CTRL+SHIFT+&, s
ß


--
Nicholas

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"Keith Snyder" > wrote in message:
...

| In Windows 98, there was a way to enable accented letters
| by using so-called dead keys. I'm sorry, I've forgotten how it
| was done. It was NOT done by using character map.
|
| To explain, I could type a double quote, ", followed by a vowel,
| say o, and get a German umlauted o.
|
| Similarly I could type a single quote, ', followed by an e and get
| a French e accent aigu.
|
| Enabling dead key foreign letters was a convenience for me.
| I need French, German, and Spanish.
|
| Does anybody know how I can do this in XP home edition?
|
| --
| Keith
|
|

[Ken Blake]

In , Keith Snyder wrote:

> In Windows 98, there was a way to enable accented letters
> by using so-called dead keys. I'm sorry, I've forgotten how it
> was done. It was NOT done by using character map.
>
> To explain, I could type a double quote, ", followed by a
vowel,
> say o, and get a German umlauted o.
>
> Similarly I could type a single quote, ', followed by an e and
get
> a French e accent aigu.
>
> Enabling dead key foreign letters was a convenience for me.
> I need French, German, and Spanish.
>
> Does anybody know how I can do this in XP home edition?


There is a setting designed to permit you to easily type foreign
characters with umlauts, accents, etc. by using two-key
combinations. You use an international character set instead of a
US one. Go to Control Panel | Regional and Language Settings, and
make sure you're set for the international character set.

But personally I find that method clumsy and do it a differently,
using a little third-party freeware program called Allchars,
which is available at http://allchars.zwolnet.com

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

[Keith Snyder]

Thanks everybody. Much appreciated.

--
Keith

[Alex Nichol]

Keith Snyder wrote:

>In Windows 98, there was a way to enable accented letters
>by using so-called dead keys. I'm sorry, I've forgotten how it
>was done. It was NOT done by using character map.

You need to install the United States (international) keyboard layout
Go to Control Panel - Regional And Language Options. Take the Language
page and click Details.
There click on Add and search for it in the lower drop down, so you have
English (some sort) and United States (international) in those two
panes. Click OK. Then in the parent page, select this combination in
the Default Input language in the top drop down, or click Key settings
and set up a hot key Combination to switch with your regular one


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.