Typing Foreign & Special Characters

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May 29, 2006 at 7:46 pm #23238

williamlee
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http://mlc.ncf.ca/characters.html

I thought this was interresting and fun for those of you that like finding different things to do with your computers. 😀

May 29, 2006 at 7:57 pm #145484

sarahtowny
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Ahh now that is actually really useful. I talk to Kudo quite alot and he is german, we could not figure out how I could use some of the letters he uses, ie ö, so that is excellent. Not that I am doing very well with my german but at least I am trying … very trying haha

But thanks William I have saved that to my favourites! Cheers :0)

May 30, 2006 at 5:53 am #145481

RabidKitten
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Hah I remember when I first learned about the Alt Key Pad trick. It was back almost 7 years ago when my fairy tale and I were talking about pokemon (Yes, I am -that- much of a geek) and he told me how to do the fun e with the accent on top.

I was tickled pink needless to say, especially because I’ve always written my initials strangly with the two S’s on top of eachother and the A off to the side, so when I figured out that Alt + 789 =§ I was absolutely tickled pink. I still use it to this day when I feel like just slapping my initials down somewhere instead of my name. §A.

Also came in handy when trying to talk about the new Æon Flux movie *wink*

Also, another way of looking at it is peeking at your character map. Mine is stashed in my Accessories and System Tools, but it gets thrown around in a lot of little places from what I’ve seen. If you click on a symbol, in the right hand corner it gives you the Alt + number combination that you need to create it.

May 31, 2006 at 2:38 am #145485

DragonSlayerz
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Also came in handy when trying to talk about the new Æon Flux movie *wink*

Hmmm I never thought of that, that’s cool:D

May 31, 2006 at 11:50 pm #145480

David
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Start > Run > CharMap does much the same thing, but locally. It also has quite a few more options.

June 1, 2006 at 12:08 am #145486

williamlee
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Thanks David,

Always a great feeling to learn something new.

June 1, 2006 at 8:06 pm #145482

RabidKitten
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*rubs her head* Yeah… that’s just what I said. Cept, yeah, didn’t know you could just run ‘charmap’ to find it. Heh. I always left it tucked in my accessories *shrug*

June 2, 2006 at 1:07 pm #145483

Kudo
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sarahtowny wrote:

Ahh now that is actually really useful. I talk to Kudo quite alot and he is german, we could not figure out how I could use some of the letters he uses, ie ö, so that is excellent. Not that I am doing very well with my german but at least I am trying … very trying haha

But thanks William I have saved that to my favourites! Cheers :0)

Ok you have all you need :p ,let’s get back to your online lessons,btw you can always learn Spanish and Italian meanwhile 😉
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