Re: Foreign characters in English text

[Emery Snyder emery_snyder@xxxxxxxx]

For German and many european characters with diacritics, you can use
"Allchars", a little utility that takes keyboard interrupts. You can use it
to put accented characters (the ones it supports) into any windows program.

The URL was www.whiteants.com, and I think that's now wrong, but there's a
link to the new site.

At 07:07 AM 17.3.2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I also use foreign (e.g. German Umlaut characters
>also. I've replaced CTRL a,i,o,u,s (the latter
>for the litigure (sp) (I believe the XYW special
>characters calls it s sharp) in my KBD file by
>copying from the INSERT SPECIAL CHARACTERS to the
>proper (upper and Lower) character settings in the
>KBD. You just have to remember which keystroke to
>use,
> Now if someone can only tell me how to get those
>characters into the MAIL composing window, I wuld
>be able to send German E-Mail without having to
>prepare it in XYWrite and then to use the
>clipbiard to copy it to the mail composition
>window.
> Any Ideas???
>Dick Giering
>
>Paul Breeze wrote:
>>
>> (Xy3.57, Win98SE) I have an infrequent need to use foreign characters in
>> English text. The most used French characters I added to my LT keyboard;
>> others I have to find when I need them. Having just loaded up XYPower I
>> find that I have to abandon ALT-e which was my most used key.
>>
>> Does anybody have a quick way of inserting these characters? I find using
>> help too laborious, and rarely bother.
>>
>> Paul Breeze
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