Typing accents (in the diacritical sense)

[Richard Tarleton]

I've used the Alt+ numbers for many years for Spanish - I've simply learnt them through constant practice. Alt+164 produces the ñ - there, it didn't send me back to the Thread list?

[french frank]

I've used the Alt+ numbers for many years for Spanish - I've simply learnt them through constant practice. Alt+164 produces the ñ - there, it didn't send me back to the Thread list?

It's just ALT+n +n on a Mac - ñ. But Macs were built for dummies, weren't they?

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[johnb]

There is no need for additional utilities or even lists.

On a Windows PC there is an extremely useful utility called "Character Map" tucked away in:

Start/All programs/Accessories/System Tools

It displays the available characters for the font/character set. You can either copy and paste or use the ALT+ code that it displays.

The best thing to do is to pin Character Map to the Start Menu or Task Bar (in Windows 7) or to copy a shortcut to the Desktop.

[makropulos]

johnb: Yes - and it's very similar on a Mac - you just go to the "Show character viewer" (in the language tab on the menu bar) and up comes a palate of characters with accents (including Czech, Romanian and others) - assuming you have the thing set to "accented Latin".

[Richard Tarleton]

I used to use Character map but found the Alt+ codes much quicker once I knew them - it interrupts the flow much less than stopping to copy and paste.

I always feel envious of Macs as they look so cool but fear I would be entering old dogs/new tricks territory