Posting - Accents

[Anthony Darby]

I've just dragged the 'Character Map' from the start etc. menu to the bar at the top of this page but Firefox doesn't know how to handle it. Works from the start menu and from the desktop.

[maggiepie]

Anthony, you need to drag it onto your quick launch bar at the bottom of the screen, there will probably already be a shortcut to the desktop, outlook express, IE and whatever shortcuts you have added yourself.
Just drag it on make sure it stayed, then you can delete the shortcut on the desktop.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm going to divert this thread slightly. Just now I heard a BBC Radio1 DJ saying to words that seem very wrong to me. It's regarding texting/SMS

He said "I've just been reading the texts (he said tex-is). This person texted (he said text-tid) to say ..."

I say texts and texted without saying the -ed. What do you say?

"I say banana, you say bananna, I say tomaato you say tomarto"

[Gerry Webster]

I'm going to divert this thread slightly. Just now I heard a BBC Radio1 DJ saying to words that seem very wrong to me. It's regarding texting/SMS

He said "I've just been reading the texts (he said tex-is). This person texted (he said text-tid) to say ..."

I say texts and texted without saying the -ed. What do you say?

"I say banana, you say bananna, I say tomaato you say tomarto"

"Well, let's call the whole thing off."

[Anthony Darby]

 

[Anthony Darby]

Mother to son: "did ye enjoy the skatin'?" "Naw! I wished I hadnae goad?" "That's bad English son! Ye should a' said 'I wish tae Goad I hadnae went!'"

[David Nicholson]

 

[gote]

Computers work in an international environment and this causes us the problems. The keyboard I presently use has å ä ö but not the ß I need when writing German. It can handle ë and ô by using two keys in sequence.
Al PC-s have a function that allows the input of characters using the ASCII code and the numerical keypad. This works in all programs (including Firefox) since it is a low level function.
#1: make sure Num-lock is on.
#2: Press the left Alt-key and keep it down.
#3: Key in the ASCII code on the numerical keypad.
#4: Let the Alt-key up again.
On laptops without numerical keypad this is more complicated but usually possible. Different makes solve it in different ways.
Now we need the ASCII code table. Goggle will find one for you. You want the extended codes i.e. above 127.  You can also try for yourself by testing various numbers between 128 and 255.
Ö=153, ö=148 Ç128 Æ=146 ß=225 and so on. If you, as I often do, write on the “wrong” keyboard it becomes a habit to use these codes.
Give it a try, it is not difficult. It will handle the most common accents. If you want to write Japanese you have to have a Japanese font installed  ひひ 
Göte
PS the "Hihi" looks OK in my browser does it in your?

[Lesley Cox]

You beat me to it Gerry but I decided to desist as obviously the accent thing is important to a lot of people. Me, I just plough on regardless without accent marks and assume the recipients will know what I mean. The spirit is willing but the language (English) and the computer skillls (mine) are weak.

[gote]

SUPE LESLEY, BUT THEPE APE PEOPLE WHO WPITE OTHEP LANGUAGES AND TO WHOM THE  THE DOTS OVER Ö APE AS IMPOPTANT AS THE EXPA STPOKE IN ‘R’ IS FOP YUO
 
Göte

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 
ç'est très drôle...

[Lesley Cox]

Point taken Gote. I am grateful for all my non-English (as a first language) friends who tolerate my abuses of THEIR languages. They're not meant in arrogance.

How about the Greeks who would, I think, in English characters call water NEPO though pronouncing it NERO. I'd better stop right here before I get myself into the read deep stuff (water of course).

[gote]

I know that it is not meant in arrogance but I could not resist.
Göte

[gote]

Mais oui Luc.
Göte

[Lesley Cox]

I know that it is not meant in arrogance but I could not resist.
Göte

I would have been disappointed if you HAD resisted Gote (with apologies for the lack of two little dots.