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| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6826 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 1 of 19 02 January 2010 at 4:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I have an English keyboard. How do you easily type French characters quickly without going to character map in Microsoft Word and copy/paste them?
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| indiana83 Groupie United States ipracticecanto.wordp Joined 5489 days ago 92 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese, Italian | Message 2 of 19 02 January 2010 at 8:19am | IP Logged | ||
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This is the approach I use.
http://french.about.com/od/writing/ss/typeaccents_2.htm Edited by indiana83 on 02 January 2010 at 8:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sonsenfrancais Groupie United Kingdom sonsenfrancais. Joined 5978 days ago 75 posts - 85 votes Speaks: FrenchC2 | Message 3 of 19 02 January 2010 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I do a lot of typing in French so I have found it worthwhile to learn to type on an English keyboard as if it were a French keyboard ! It takes a little time to learn, but it's worth it
Here's the link to one of my sites that explains how http://www.listentofrench.org/Accents.html 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| novemberain Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5843 days ago 59 posts - 87 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 4 of 19 02 January 2010 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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On Mac OS X, one can type accents and other diacritics
with out having to switch away from English layout. After a while, it becomes second nature. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5446 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 5 of 19 03 January 2010 at 8:35am | IP Logged | ||
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If you're using Windows, do the following:
1) Start 2) Settings 3) Control Panel 4) Regional and Language 5) Keyboard and Languages tab 6) Change Keyboard 7) Add Keyboard 8) Add US-International 9) Click on the Language Bar tab and choose where you want your icon for changing keyboards. From then on, all you need to do is make sure you're using the International Keyboard. To do acute accents, type ' then the letter: 'e = é To do grave accents, type ` then the letter: `a = à To do the circumflex, type ^ then the letter: ^a = â To do the diaresis, type " then the letter: "e = ë To do the cedilla, type ' then the letter c: 'c = ç Note that if you need to use a symbol independently, you need to hit a space after it before letters that combine to form accented characters. Eg, to type "A you need to type "[space]A. Without the space, you'll get Ä. You can also install the French keyboard if you want to learn it by using exactly the procedure outlined above depending on whether you mix French and English (I switched to the US-International keyboard in grad school for writing English language history papers that cited a lot of French sources) or are only going to be writing extended chunks of French. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 19 03 January 2010 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder what letters/symbols a English keyboard has instead of the accent keys of a Swedish keyboard... Five accents are covered on just two keys. One has ´and `, another has ¨,^ plus ~ as the Alt Gr option.
With those, I can type several accented vowels, which are in use in many international words. A lot easier than installing another keyboard. The only letter I can't type that easy is the cedilla, so for that one I have memorized the ALT codes (Ç: ALT+0199, ç: ALT+0231). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7164 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 7 of 19 03 January 2010 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
Ugh, I know! :) The answer is, there aren't any accents, because English doesn't use accents, and it somehow never occurred to programmers that anyone would ever need to type in any other language, ever. Instead there are separate keys for brackets, one key for slashes, one for quotation marks, one for semicolon/colon, one for a question mark/backslash, and separate keys for the comma and period. Sometimes I think, really English? You couldn't have retained one umlaut, a few consistent uses of an accent over letters that would require a keyboard more compatible with the majority of foreign languages that English speakers tend to learn? As it is, the only word I can think of offhand that uses a diaeresis is naïve, and that's if you want to be pretentious. To the original post: A website called www.typeit.org is the most elegant solution I've found for the writing that I do. It offers the following languages in the most intuitive approach I've seen yet: just press ctrl and the letter closest to the one that you want (e.g. a for ä in German), and you're in business. It superimposes the Russian keyboard over your own, so no problems there. # Czech # Danish # Dutch # Esperanto # Finnish # French # German # Hungarian # IPA (English) # Italian # Polish # Portuguese # Romanian # Russian # Spanish # Swedish # Symbols # Turkish # Welsh Edited by Sprachjunge on 03 January 2010 at 5:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 19 03 January 2010 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
I know I've seen (or written) animé, café, née, resumé, Brontë, Chloë, Zoë, and the tilde sign for approximation or range. The acute accent is fairly common in Swedish, but not the other diacritics. However, our keyboard still has them. Perhaps there are more keys on a Swedish keyboard than an English? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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