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Ponape
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Spain
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Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian
Studies: Greek, Basque, Swahili, Tagalog, Arabic (classical), Quechua, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi

 
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04 May 2014 at 11:45pm | IP Logged 
Dear friends,

I am sometimes a bit annoyed when I want to write a sentence or look up a word in an
online dictionary and I have to copy/paste a special character from somewhere else.

I know there is Google Input Tools and other sites, but I wanted a more convenient
system, and one system that would be equally valid for all languages written with the
Latin alphabet and romanization systems such as Pinyin.

So I created a small Javascript program that renders special characters with two-
character combinations. For example, á is rendered as a/, ñ is rendered as n$ , ş is
rendered as s{ , ā is rendered as a[ , etc.

In case it might be useful or curious for someone, it's explained here:
http://latinalphabetextensions.blogspot.com.es/

You might need to have a Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS to see all characters
correctly. For me it works correctly in Chrome and Firefox.

Example sentences from four languages
Croatian:    Z<elim da danas izad+es< rano    Želim da danas izađeš rano
Latvian: Uz redze[s<anos!   Uz redzēšanos!
Esperanto: hodiau( estas j>au(do   hodiaŭ estas ĵaŭdo
Vietnamese: to>i no/i tie5ng Vie9t     tôi nói tiếng Việt

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Doitsujin
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05 May 2014 at 10:04am | IP Logged 
Windows users can also download the free Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and design their own custom keyboard layouts.
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