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- From: peter@citr.uq.oz.au (Peter Klavins)
- Subject: Re: Foreign characters on Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <peter.722138861@citr.uq.oz.au>
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- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- References: <1992Nov12.182315.25831@schbbs.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:07:41 GMT
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- yves@speedy.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yves Vidal) writes:
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- >Any of you know a mechanism with Windows to use accentuation and
- >special foreign characters when running WINDOWS 3.1 with a QWERTY
- >keyboard.
-
- In SETUP select your keyboard as "US International" -- this is the
- normal US keyboard that is able to generate the accented characters with
- pairs of keystrokes, the first being a dead key. The five dead keys are
- " ' ~ ` ^. If you press ~ then n, for example, you get the spanish n in
- senora. You press the dead key first, then the character that the dead
- key is to apply to. It's great fun! To generate the actual dead keys
- themselves, you have to press the dead key followed by space bar. You
- get a beep if the dead key-character combination is not allowed and does
- not translate to any accented character.
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