Typing Special Characters on the forum

[Matusalem]

Getting way off the track but for the sake of future education... you can do as Ed said copy/paste if you can find or have stored symbols etc., but if you're using Windows you can also change the keyboard language options. For most (XP and newer) I think it's under the Control Panel listing of: "Date, Time, Language & Regional Options". You would want to select the Regional and Language Options tab....

Here's a snapshot:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q59/lucho_album/untitled-1.jpg

Hit the drop arrow and you get a whole bunch of languages (many country specific) that change how the keyboard's characters display. Upon selecting a second language you'll get an icon (usually at the bottom of the screen) "EN" - that's English. When you select that icon you get a listing of the alternative language(s) you've selected and upon re-selecting one from there, the keyboard will then be ready output characters that correspond to the language chosen.

You can toggle back and forth between language displays in the middle of a document etc.

Note: So far as I know, you are on your own for grammar / spelling & things like synonyms.

[Count Silvio]

Getting way off the track but for the sake of future education... you can do as Ed said copy/paste if you can find or have stored symbols etc., but if you're using Windows you can also change the keyboard language options. For most (XP and newer) I think it's under the Control Panel listing of: "Date, Time, Language & Regional Options". You would want to select the Regional and Language Options tab....

Here's a snapshot:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q59/lucho_album/untitled-1.jpg

Hit the drop arrow and you get a whole bunch of languages (many country specific) that change how the keyboard's characters display. Upon selecting a second language you'll get an icon (usually at the bottom of the screen) "EN" - that's English. When you select that icon you get a listing of the alternative language(s) you've selected and upon re-selecting one from there, the keyboard will then be ready output characters that correspond to the language chosen.

You can toggle back and forth between language displays in the middle of a document etc.

Note: So far as I know, you are on your own for grammar / spelling & things like synonyms.

Hmm that looks unnecessarily complicated, I don't know what kind of keyboards you guys have but on my finnish board the squiggly ~ is on the key right next to Enter. I don't have to change any languages.

Hold down Alt Gr while hitting <the key with the squiggly> + n = &#241;

[Edward Hamilton]

Actually the squiggly is called an diacritical tilde or eсe pronounced "n-yeah" which is the more common description. I took several years of Spanish in high school but learned more in a few nights in Puerto Rico two years in school.

[Matusalem]

No idea what a "Gr" button is... but what is important to know is after one sets the regional language(s) of choice, it's not necessary to go through the complicated process ever again.

On any future occasion one would simply select the EN icon and get a drop menu of the additional languages added to the menu. Upon selecting your choice from the drop menu, the keyboard then functions in that language / country's configuration. A couple of quick mouse clicks without a Twister tournament.

[Edward Hamilton]

In the French islands, the keyboards were laid out differently. I would change them to the English layout, and tried to remember to revert back to the French. Sometimes it's the only way to type without looking for every key.

The @ symbol, '.' and a couple of others required some gyrations if you weren't used to where they were placed. Not to mention that a lot of the letters are in different places. But we all end up at the Ministry of Rum forums.

[Scottes]

There's also the ALT-xxx where xxx is a 3-digit number. Hold down Alt, type the appropriate 3-digit number on the number keypad (not the top row), release Alt.

й - 130
з - 135

Handy for typing Clйment and Cachaзa correctly. And there are more, of course.

[Edward Hamilton]

I like those combinations but unfortunately my laptop doesn't have a separate number pad and I don't even own a desktop keyboard.

With a little searching I found references by people who spend more time on laptops than I do.

To type &#241; Hold FN then Hold Alt = mkuj When you hold down the FN key, a keyboard is activated under the right hand keys. m=0, j=1, k=2, etc.

The &#241; doesn't actually appear until you release the Alt key. You can also lock the FN key down by clicking F11.

[Scottes]

Yup, by enabling the number keypad on your laptop you actually typed ALT-0241.

Which makes me remember that not all codes are 3-digit - some are 4-digit, and the leading 0 matters. ALT-241 yields ±, while 0241 gets the desired с.

[Count Silvio]

No idea what a "Gr" button is...
Alt Gr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KB_US-International.svg

[Matusalem]

I'm sure I wasn't the only one who wasn't home and missed delivery on their "Gr" button lol. For more obscure stuff I just use this chart of symbols / characters I put together (it's more extensive in word but I copied what's in my on-line folder). Again the Twister thing and remembering the sequence... I'll just refer to the chart - copy and paste if I have the symbol and absolutely find need to use it. Some of the characters are repeated under different language headings or fonts etc:


Θ ι ο π π δ σ α φ γ η ξ κ λ ζ χ ψ ω β ν μ ς ε ρ τ υ θ ι ο L ך ל
כג ד ש ז ס ב ה ההנ צ ת ץ . , ף ך ל ח י ע כ ג ד ש / ' ק ר א ט ו ן ם פ \ ה
© Π Ω № † Ј З Ω Џ Я Э ‰ ‡ ₪ Ђ ℅ ℓ ∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∩ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ▲ ► ▼ ◄ ♀ ♂ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ♪ ♫ © Π Ω № † Ј З Ђ ₧ ₪ ℅ ℓ № ™ Ω ⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↕ ↨ ∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ♂ ♀ ☼ ☻ ☺ ▬ ◊ ﷲ ﻺ  № У Г К А Ѕ з Й П Ч о ґ у µ Д µ з Ч У К ј ю П µ Н і Ў Є Ґ ў ® А ї ѕ № є ¶ Θ Λ я э ٪ ™ є ¶ Θ ‹ Њ � Ћ � � ‘ ’ “ ” • я % & ( ) * + B C D E F G J N k ѓ ų ξ ψ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ∫ ® © ј Ѕ ѕ ї № † Њ Ґ ± № є ° Ы Ь Э Ю ь и П И д є ¦ Ї І љ ‘ Ђ ¶ ч Ј § Њ Ґ Я Ш с В П Д Е Ж "ј

[Edward Hamilton]

I'll often cut and paste from other pages on this site when I'm posting in the forums, or I'll refer to a bookmarked page of special characters. Since I often type things like aсejo in Word, I've added an autocorrect entry for that word, cachaзa is another autocorrect entry I've added.

Unfortunately, this forum software doesn't support autocorrect entries, yet.

I do appreciate members who take the time to enter special characters in their posts, and the people who make these rums appreciate it as well.

[forrest]

My head hurts . . .

[Scottes]

My head hurts . . .
No worries. If you type cachaca, anejo, or Clement we will know what you mean.

[Scottes]

By the way, if you're on Windows, you can also use the Character Map program to get these characters, and their codes.

Start... Programs... Accessories... System Tools... Character Map. Pick Arial as a font - it's pretty darn complete - and search for your character (which is a pain, I know).

Once you find it, you can Select then Copy it into the clipboard and paste it here. Also, in the bottom right-hand corner is the Alt-Code.

http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/CharMap.gif

[Rum Runner]

Great work guys...You got me going to school here with the options.