Accented characters

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 17:51, Wulfy wrote:
> French has circumflex accents on I, E, A, O and U...  not on keyboard...
> nor the ones termed "tréma"...
> 
> One must assume they use some sort of combination of keys to produce those.
> 
Exactly, *it is a "dead" key*, when I hit the "^" nothing happens until I 
press a suitable 2nd key, to print a lone circumflex I follow it with a 
space, or double type it.
On my swiss-french qwertz keyboard the tilda behaves the same way but
the "treima" turns into a double quote if followed by a space, (lone treima 
when doubble typed)	nothing is simple ;)		"äëïöüẅÿ"   "¨
I know the "^" works the same on a pure frenc-french keyboard, at least the 
one next to the "p", cannot tell about the treima and the tilda.

Perry

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