Keycodes

[Puresox]

^^^ What is the key combo for it? For future reference?

[MacDeath]

azerty

[Puresox]

So you can't do it on an old Blighty keyboard?

[Gryzor]

When I want to type an accented word I just google it without accents and copy it from the results...

[Puresox]

Great Idea thanks

[Nich]

So you can't do it on an old Blighty keyboard?

If I need an accented character, I hold down the Alt key and type in the appropriate character code using the numeric keypad (ensuring that NumLock is set). The character code for 'à' is 224, so pressing Alt and typing 0,2,2,4 produces an à. I'm using Windows XP (but I hope to upgrade soon! ). I can recall the code for a few of the more common characters.

[Puresox]

I had heard of that way before , but could not remember what the combinations were. Thanks for that. Is there a directory that gives you a list of all the variety of characters?

[ralferoo]

It's really easy on Linux with deadkeys enabled:

altgr-[ adds " äëïöüÿ
altgr-] adds ~ ãẽĩõũñỹ,
altgr-; adds ' áéíóúý
altgr-' ^ âêîôûŷ
altgr-# adds ` àèìòùỳ
altgr-/ adds , ạẹịọụỵ
altgr-= adds ¸ ȩçḩ
altgr-{ adds ° åůẙ
altgr-} adds ¯ āēīōūȳ
altgr-: adds ˝ őű
altgr-@ adds ˇ ǎěǐǒǔ
altgr-? adds ˙ȧėıȯẏ

There are loads of other alt-gr combinations, but the deadkeys make it far easier to find the combination you want than with windows...

[MacDeath]

can't believe you all responded this to those posts...


à voir...


Reminds me the story of a "technologically challenged" customer who needed to renew a password...
He actually choosed a word startin with "é" and when I told him the password needed a bold case letter, he then wanted the same "é" in bold case... for a password to be used on smartphones... WTF ?


Even I can get this é in bold...

É ? need to copypaste from the internet, lol...

[fano]

^^

[andycadley]

On the Windows 8 on screen keyboard you can get to many of the accented characters by just holding down on the relevant key. Even É. :-)

[Nich]

I had heard of that way before , but could not remember what the combinations were. Thanks for that. Is there a directory that gives you a list of all the variety of characters?

Wikipedia's entry for the ISO-8859-1 character set contains a table listing all of the character codes in decimal.

[arnoldemu]

How about the charmap utility on Windows? It is installed by default. Let's you view all the characters in a font. So you can easily find what you need.