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ManicGenius
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 Message 9 of 19
24 April 2010 at 5:15am | IP Logged 
goosefrabbas wrote:
That's weird... I've always typed ^ then written c myself. To each
his own, I suppose.


I tried that, didn't work with my keyboard. Go figure, I can type most anything else with
US-International.
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MäcØSŸ
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 Message 10 of 19
24 April 2010 at 7:28am | IP Logged 
You can try to build a custom layout witch encompasses all the letters you need for your languages, in the way
they are more congenial to you. Unfortunately I’ve no idea how to do that on Windows.
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GREGORG4000
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 Message 11 of 19
24 April 2010 at 7:31am | IP Logged 
MäcØSŸ wrote:
You can try to build a custom layout witch encompasses all the letters you need for your languages, in the way
they are more congenial to you. Unfortunately I’ve no idea how to do that on Windows.

I did it with Microsoft Keyboard Creator, changed the Finnish/Swedish layout to add an ü and a ß.
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stelingo
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 Message 12 of 19
24 April 2010 at 11:52am | IP Logged 
claviers en ligne

Edited by stelingo on 24 April 2010 at 11:53am

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Cainntear
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 Message 13 of 19
24 April 2010 at 3:43pm | IP Logged 
GREGORG4000 wrote:
MäcØSŸ wrote:
You can try to build a custom layout witch encompasses all the letters you need for your languages, in the way
they are more congenial to you. Unfortunately I’ve no idea how to do that on Windows.

I did it with Microsoft Keyboard Creator, changed the Finnish/Swedish layout to add an ü and a ß.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx

Add anything you want to your normal keyboard layout.
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linkmaster03
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 Message 14 of 19
24 April 2010 at 8:42pm | IP Logged 
The first thing I did was set two useless keys on my keyboard to a "dead breve" and "dead circumflex", respectively. This allowed me to type all Esperanto letters, such as ĉ and ŭ.

Later, I decided to drop those two key assignments in favor of setting a Compose key. With a Compose key, you can type all Esperanto letters and much more. To type ĉ, for example, you hold down the Compose key, type the key sequence "^c", then release the Compose key. To type a ŭ, use the sequence "uu". This is the reference that I use to look up sequences.
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Akalabeth
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 Message 15 of 19
24 April 2010 at 8:54pm | IP Logged 
For those here who use Ubuntu (maybe I'm the only one, dunno), you can access a lot of
special characters by going to System → Preferences → Keyboard → Layouts → Layout Options
and setting the Compose Key Position. Then you just hit whatever you set the compose key
to, hit whatever key seems obvious to begin the character (for the circumflex its
shift+6), and then hit the key you want to add it to. So ĉ = compose key + ^ + c.
There are a lot of language related characters you can access this way. Customizing the
keyboard is a bit more difficult than in Windows though.

EDIT: Bah, too slow.

Edited by Akalabeth on 25 April 2010 at 3:31am

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Akao
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 Message 16 of 19
24 April 2010 at 10:36pm | IP Logged 
I have the keyboard set up, but I can't put ˆ over anything. Same with ˇ.

Help?


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