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| cassidium Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie Singapore Joined 6300 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, GermanA1, French | Message 1 of 6 17 December 2008 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Could any French and German speakers enlighten me on how i could type in letters with accent or umlaut when typing in French or German in this forum or in a Microsoft word document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am using a normal keyboard.
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| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5827 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 2 of 6 17 December 2008 at 1:28pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't know what kind of computer you're using, but if it isn't a Mac, this should work. Hold down the Alt key and type these numbers: ä - 132 Ä - 142 Ö - 153 ö - 148 Ü - 154 ü - 129 Obviously those are for German (I don't know how to do the Spanish ones). And if that doesn't work, you can always substitute say an "ä" for "ae". If the lette has an umlaut over it, just type the letter as it is without it, and add an "e" behind it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bruce Groupie United States Joined 6229 days ago 65 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, German | Message 3 of 6 17 December 2008 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Go into Language and regional options in the control panel and switch to the international keyboard. You can also just add another language and use that keyboard setting so you can switch back and forth. With the international keyboard you hit 'a and get á. If you actually want the ' character you just hit the space bar after typing it.
'e = é etc "a = ä etc `a = à etc ~n = ñ right alt key plus s = ß right alt key plus ? = ¿ or ! = ¡ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5983 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 6 17 December 2008 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use Charmap in Windows XP to copy and paste characters. Just click on start, then run, then type charmap
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| Eimii Groupie United States Joined 5838 days ago 44 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Polish | Message 5 of 6 17 December 2008 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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What Bruce said though you can do a little bit more than just the international keyboard. Go Control Panel, Language and Regional options, add other languages, details, add, then select a language and select the right keyboard.
You should then get a little EN thing, GE, FR, buttons on the task bar. Press Shift + Alt to shift between languages and it'll give you all of the characters, though maybe instead of [';,.] characters. It's the easiest without having to do all of the alt things or going into symbol every five seconds. Without it, I would hate my life if every time I wrote in Russian I would have to copy paste, alt or symbol. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6915 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 17 December 2008 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I must be very lucky to have a Swedish keyboard with a key for ¨/^/~ and n for ´/` even though none of those symbols are used in Swedish (except for the ¨ of course, but we already have other keys for ä and ö).
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