gHacks technology news » accented characters http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Easiest way to type accents http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/13/easiest-way-to-type-accents/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/13/easiest-way-to-type-accents/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:39:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/13/easiest-way-to-type-accents/ Keyboards have limited space and offer only a certain number of accents that can be typed normally. Those are normally the accents that are used in the country where that keyboard has been sold, all other accents however are not that easily accessible and users have to use keyboard shortcuts to write down those letters.

Accents however offers an easier faster way. Have you ever used your mobile phone to type a SMS or note ? You might know then that all the keys of your mobile phone have more than one letter assigned to it which can be selected by pressing the same key a number of times.

The same method is being used by Accents to provide access to accents that are not printed on the keyboard. Just press a key more than once to flip through the available accents. There are for example five accents for the a key which can be accessed by pressing the a key 2-6 times. They are å,ä,â,à and á. Similar accents are accessible when pressing the e,i,o,u and y keys.

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It does not stop here however. Users can add accents to the software with ease to make it fit their special needs. The ini file is a simply text document that can be edited like any other text document. You find additional information about editing the Accents settings at the Donation Coder forum.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/13/easiest-way-to-type-accents/feed/ 2 How to write European Special Characters http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/09/how-to-write-european-special-characters/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/09/how-to-write-european-special-characters/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 08:55:27 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/09/how-to-write-european-special-characters/ It is not happening that often that you have to accented characters or umlauts but it sometimes happens. Maybe you want to write a name like Søren or a unique German street name such as Bachstraße. If you never had to type those characters before you might wonder how it would be possible to write them down using your keyboard. They are obviously not printed on the keys of it.

One way to solve this problem is to use the Firefox extension Zombiekeys which adds exactly this functionality to Firefox. You have access to many, not sure if those are all, special characters that exist in European languages. Those include diacritics and ligatures. Unicode and Windows-1252 characters are supported as well. The key combinations have been directly taken from Microsoft Office which means that if you use them there, you will be able to use them in Firefox immediately.

  • à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, ÃŒ, Ã’, Ù
    CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
  • é, í, ó, ú, ý, Ã?, É, Ã?, Ó, Ú, Ã?; ð, Ã?
    CTRL+’ (APOSTROPHE), the letter; d or D
  • â, ê, î, ô, û, Â, Ê, ÃŽ, Ô, Û
    CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter
  • ã, ñ, õ, Ã, Ñ, Õ
    CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter
  • ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ, Ä, Ë, Ã?, Ö, Ãœ, Ÿ
    CTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter
  • Ã¥, Ã…
    CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
  • æ, Æ; Å“, Å’; ß
    CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A; o or O; s
  • ç, Ç
    CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
  • ø, Ø, ¢
    CTRL+/, o or O or c
  • ¿
    CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+?
  • ¡
    CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+!
  • €
    CTRL+ALT+E
  • The Unicode character for the specified Unicode (hexadecimal) character code. For example, to insert the euro currency symbol (€), type 20AC, and then hold down the ALT key and press X.
    The character code, ALT+X

    • The Windows-1252 character for the specified (decimal) character code.For example, to insert the euro currency symbol (€), hold down the ALT key and press 0128 on the numeric keypad.
    ALT+the character code (on the numeric keypad)

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