inserting foreign language symbols

[andrea]

I can't seem to insert foreign language symbols using the
ALT key. Can anyone help me? Thank you!

[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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"andrea" > wrote in message:
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| I can't seem to insert foreign language symbols using the
| ALT key. Can anyone help me? Thank you!

[Ken Blake]

In , andrea wrote:

> I can't seem to insert foreign language symbols using the
> ALT key. Can anyone help me? Thank you!


There's more than one way to accomplish this. If you need to do
this fairly often, you might want to try a little freeware
application called Allchars, available at
http://allchars.zwolnet.com

It runs in the background and lets you enter such characters by
pressing the Ctrl key, follwed by a two letter mnemonic. For
example, ñ is ctrl-n-~, ç is ctrl-c-, and ä is ctrl-a-"

--
Ken Blake
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[robin@despammed.com]

Is Num Lock on? (Check the light above the Num keypad). If it isn't
then switch it on by pressing Num Lock - top left key of the numerical
keypad.

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 04:51:49 -0700, "andrea" >
wrote:

>I can't seem to insert foreign language symbols using the
>ALT key. Can anyone help me? Thank you!

[robin@despammed.com]

I think this only works in MS Word though.

Rob H

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:11:46 -0500, "Nicholas"
> wrote:

>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