Re: Foreign characters in English text

[TBaehr@xxxxxxxx]

Here are the function calls for accents:
Acute=S1 (put on Ctrl + ')
Grave=S2 (Ctrl + `)
Umlaut=S3 (Ctrl + Shift + ")
Circumflex=S4 (Ctrl + ^)
Overcircle (as for Angstrom)=S5 (?- not in my keyboard file)
Tilde=S6 (Ctrl + Shift + ~)

The Ctrl key assignments are just suggestions, but they're pretty easy to
remember.

These are called "dead accents" - a remnant of typesetting days when you
could hit a dead accent character and the carriage wouldn't advance until the
next character was typed. I suspect someone typing *only* French could save
key strokes with dedicated character keys. You'd have to find a place for
them in your keyboard table.

Tim Baehr
tbaehr@xxxxxxxx