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re: French accents



Bob

Maybe this will help.
I customised the XY4 keyboard for my Afrikaans colleagues when our department used XyWrite in the 1990s.
Under Function Calls in the manual, S1 to S7 create Foreign/Overstrike 
Characters (See Note #5):

S1 = Accute accent
S2 = Grave accent
S3 = Umlaut
S4 = Circumflex
S5 = O accent
S6 = Tilde
S7 = Underline

NOTE #5
S1 - S7 The letter S followed by a number between 1 and 7 is used for entering foreign accented characters. When you use one of these calls, the indicated accent mark appears on the screen (at this stage, the accent mark may not display correctly). If the letter that is next pressed is a letter that accepts accents (for example, a, A, e, E, i, o, O, u, U, y, n and N) the accent mark is replaced that letter with the accent applied.

For example I allocated the accent keys to:

TABLE=CTRL
;40='
;41=`
40=S1
41=S2

TABLE=CTRL+SHIFT
40=S3

TABLE=SHIFT
;7=^
7=S4

Regards
Jon Inggs

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French accents
Re: French accents
Re: French accents

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From: Bob Newell <bobnewell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: French accents
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 09:30:11 -1000

Aloha everyone,

Perhaps one of the experts here might be able to save me a lot
of time.

I've been writing a novel in French (with a US keyboard) and
doing the accents is making this a frustrating experience on
stock XY4. I'm using the supplied method of Insert menu -
Accent - (select accent). For one thing the selection is
incomplete (no cédille), but overwhelmingly, it's just so
slow.

I would think there is some sort of startup code I could add
to make this work, probably something that already exists.

If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very
appreciative.

Mahalo in advance,

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