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09-16-2004, 05:23 PM
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Silver Dragon
   Join Date: July 29, 2003
Location: Shrewsbury, England
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Well, keyboard characters, that is... Basically, I have an English/American keyboard on Windows XP Home Edition. How do I write German characters such as "ä", "ö", "ü" and "ß"? (Had to copy and paste those [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
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09-16-2004, 05:26 PM
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Iron Throne Cult
 Join Date: January 2, 2003
Location: Big Castle in the Sky
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Go to Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map.
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09-16-2004, 05:29 PM
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Zartan
 Join Date: May 20, 2003
Location: Near Aberdeen, Scotland
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In word click on insert then find the symbol and memorise the shortkey.
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09-16-2004, 05:36 PM
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Zartan
Join Date: May 2, 2001
Location: Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum
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...Or just do it the old-fashioned way and use alt-codes (alt132 results in ä, for example). Not the easiest way, but if you've got several of these memorised over the years anyway (like I did, legacy from my IBM-influenced childhood
 ), it really *is* the quickest way to create those special characters. Well, apart from having a keyboard that's equipped with special shortcut keys, that is. [ 09-16-2004, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ] |
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09-16-2004, 07:17 PM
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Harper
 Join Date: October 6, 2001
Location: Iceland
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Þæöðóíúýéáåêîâ... these are all on my keyboard... but strangely enough I have no > or the reverse arrow...
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09-16-2004, 07:40 PM
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Quintesson
 Join Date: June 13, 2001
Location: Darkness
Age: 37
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You can also hit CTRL + SHIFT + : before typing the character, to give it an umlaut. It doesn't work here on IW, it seems, but other places I've tried it does (including MS Word).
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09-16-2004, 08:05 PM
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Takhisis Follower
 Join Date: April 30, 2001
Location: szép Magyarország (well not right now)
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ctrl + alt + letter gives the line accent like this: áéíóú guess that's only useful for hungarian though... otherwise do as Groj says
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09-16-2004, 10:53 PM
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John Locke
 Join Date: February 7, 2002
Location: Edmonton, Canada
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On my mac, I just have to push option- s for that one. The umlauted ones don't show anywhere. [img]tongue.gif[/img] [ 09-16-2004, 10:55 PM: Message edited by: Sir Goulum ] |
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09-17-2004, 03:38 AM
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Baaz Draconian
 Join Date: August 22, 2004
Location: Sydney, Australia.
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I love this forum... i learn so much that I never would have thought about
 Id love to speak German. Someone teach me? |
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09-17-2004, 04:17 AM
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