Foreign Keyboards - Help

[Snoweel]

I wonder if anyone is familiar with the codes for creating non-English letters on English keyboards (that is, keyboards with only English letters, not necessarily keyboards made in England).

I ask specifically for Swedish characters, namely A, A and O. (See what I mean.)

Phonetically: AW, AI(R) and UH(R).

Thanks for your time.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I believe there are alt-codes for them. I'm not certain how to find them, though. Mostly this is a bump.

I know a friend that's studying German uses codes to produce Ä, Ö, and Ü.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, in the "good old DOS Times" you could type:
ALT + numbers from the NUM Block, to get the ASCII Sign at the given Number. Windows is often using special fonts with a limited number of keys, so this is not always possible. (I believe there is a tool which allows you to see all the keys in a certain type and what code represents them).

If you use JAVA based applications and other UNICODE capable programs, you should get a UNICODE Table with all the signs (at least the ones that are defined, there are still several blanks as far as I know).
Then you should be able to type these special signs, using the Codes.
(For the Unicode Table, I suggest just using a internet Search Engine)

Mustrum Ridcully

 

[Jack Haggerty]

Assuming you use Windows...

If you hunt through your "start" menus, you should be able to find a little accessory program called "Character Map". It's usually under "Programs", then "Accessories", then "System Tools", but it may be elsewhere.

When you run the program, it'll be pretty self explanatory. You can pick the font you want to look at, and then it displays all the available charcters for that font.

Clicking on a character gives extra information in a liittle bar at the bottom of the window. "Ü", for example, says, "U+00DC: Latin Capital Letter U with Diaeresis, Keystroke Alt+0220"

Depending on your version of Windows, there is an advenced view, that lets you group the chracter set based on region... "Windows: Baltic", or "Windows: Cyrillic", for example.

Good Luck.

 

[The It's Man]

Or configure your regional & language settings so that when you press " followed by a it will come out like ä (same goes for `~'^ and an appropriate letter)

Just don't forget to put a space after the " when you want to type a sentence starting with an a,e,i,o, y or u between quotation marks.

But the easiest way is to make a list with the alt-codes and their appropriate Swedish charachter - after some use you'll know them by heart.

 

[Snoweel]

Okay, I found the Character Map, with the 6 characters I need, but when the time comes for me to use them, like I just tried in this post, I'm just left with an empty space.

Like I want this o with some dots over it (as the Germans say, an "umlaut"). The code is apparently "Alt+0246" for lowercase, but it's doing nothing for me.

Is there anything else I need to know? I'm not computer-literate by any stretch of the imagination, but I learn fast.

Anyone wanna be Qui-Gon to my Obi-Wan?

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Test: ö (ALT+0246)

I held down the alt key and typed 0246 on the number pad.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Sometimes the Browser or the Forum Software makes some problems in these cases. I had the same Problem with the Euro "€" Sign at another board.
Most there could use the sign, but I couldn`t...

Mustrum Ridcully

 

[Snoweel]

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

Okay, thanks. What a dumbfuc* I am.

I was using the regular numbers instead of the number pad. Mustrum even made a point of mentioning it.

Snoweel starts punching himself in the head while screaming "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid..."

Did I mention you guys rock? Thanks everyone.

Now my emails can start making sense again.

There's a BIG difference between "höra" and "hora" in Swedish. (one means "hear" while the other's the world's oldest profession...)