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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:10:45 -0400, Jeff Zeitlin
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>On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:13:49 +0100, Dominic Payer <>
>wrote:
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>>Find Character Map in your Windows Accessories/Tools menu and note and
>>remember the Alt+numeric sequence for the accented characters you need
>>in the fonts you use.
>>
>>The numbers in the sequences must be entered on the right hand numeric
>>keypad not the numeric keys above the keyboard letters.
>
>This is not going to always be possible - for example, my Dell Inspiron
>laptop does not have a numeric keypad, not even via the special Fn key
>like my previous Toshiba did. I therefore cannot enter characters using
>the Alt-numeric codes.

There are more ways to get accents and things. I use Vista, and this works on
Seven as well (and I think on XP too). I my language set to English and the
keyboard US International. No need for fingerbreaking keypad combinations

To enable accents, I press Left Shift + Left Ctrl (press them both to switch
on the feature and then let go).
Now if I type " followed by e, I get ë.

To disable, I press Left Shift + Left Ctrl.
Now if I type " followed by e, I get "e

I found this by accident as I was messing around with the keycombinations
while using the Japanese IME. I noticed my accents were gone, but then thought
that I had been pushing a bunch of keycombinations on the bottom left of my
keyboard, and then pushed and pushed till I found them. Maybe an online search
would have helped me find the answer straight away, but you know, men don't
like to read manuals

Hope this helps

jud

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:18:25 +0100, Jud Hendrix <> wrote:

>There are more ways to get accents and things. I use Vista, and this works on
>Seven as well (and I think on XP too). I my language set to English and the
>keyboard US International. No need for fingerbreaking keypad combinations

Yes, I noted this in an earlier post; I've been using this method on my
own computers since Windows98SE. Much simpler to deal with; the only
time I have problems is when I need to find a less-common accent mark,
such as the Hungarian double-acute accent, for which I use the Character
Map.