Accented characters

[Rosalind Mitchell]

On Friday 25 January 2008 00:36:04 Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Rosie

Hello Bas

> the following key board lay out: 'us English'. Then, choose the
> following LAY-OUT VARIANT: 'intl.'. So, you will get 'US International',

Aha!  Caught you out in a little presumption!  ;)  Fortunately the GB keyboard 
has an 'intl' variant too.  Iḿ (whoops!) delighted to see that with the ^ key 
I can also get ŷ and ŵ should I ever want to type Welsh (surely they should 
be available anyway on any true GB keyboard but let´s not go there.)

The ç is bit of a bugger.  I can get ¢ with AltGr-C but I can't think of 
anywhere a little limey girl like me might use it (I don't think my many 
American friends use it very much either, come to think of it) and I wish I 
could customise it to give me a ç but I dare say I can use a compose key for 
this as Doc suggests.

> ...etc. So if you want to type 'She says that ...', you simply need to
> press ' two times in order to generate the quote and unquote signs.

As a writer who does lots of dialogue this could be a pain but maybe I´ll 
(whoops!) get used to it.  Or perhaps I could adopt «French quoting», which I 
find is easy with AltGr-Z and AltGr-X.

This could be fun!

> I hope to have helped you sufficiently well.

Indeed, and thanks to you and everybody else who has replied.

Rosie


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