On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Remo Dentato
<rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Jonathan Jones <
eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you type an accented character on a U.S. keyboard? We don't have a
> compose key, unless we're running Linux and set, say, caps-lock to it....
WIndows 7 box)
133 à
138 è
141 ì
149 ò
151 ù
I used this long time ago, when the Italian keyboards didn't have the
characters "{`}" and I was programming in C (btw, the Italian keyboard
doesn't have the bactick still Alt+96).
Should everything else fail, the charmap.exe utility (in the
Accessories folder) will let you copy the accented characters in the
clipboard (and you'll have to paste them where you need them).
Oh, I know about the charmap and the alt thing. However, their is a lot
more effort involved in both those methods then merely using Capital
letters, and in general humans are very lazy. O requires two keystrokes.
ò requires at least 4 using the ALT+n method as well as requiring one
to memorize it's number, and charmap is so inefficient it's not worth
talking about. Using a compose key is really the only way that's viable
competition to using capitals: <compose>,o,` is only one more
keystroke than <shift>+o, and doesn't require much more in the way
of memorization.
Considering how infrequently accented characters are used in Lojban, I
would consider this a little hindrance compared to having to throw
capital letters in the middle of a lojban word.
remod