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Typing Accents
[á, â, à, å,
ã, ä,]
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There are only two steps you need to take
to start typing accents and diacritical marks on your computer.
- Configure your keyboard
- Use the proper keystrokes
Windows users, after setting their keyboard IME to US-International,
need to use slightly different keystrokes depending on whether
they are typing into a word processor, or online, such as
on a forum or weblog.
Mac users can skip step 1. The keyboard input for
diacritics is incorporated into the OS, although alternate
non-qwerty international layouts are optional.
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1. Step one: keyboard config
2. Step two: keystrokes
Windows
- MS Word
Windows
- WWW
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For non-roman character functionality, click here.
Another input option is the ALT key +ASCII number codes for those who don't want to use the U.S.-International
keyboard.
For creating webpages, HTML
has its own code for representing special characters. A WYSIWYG
editor like Dreamweaver will handle this for you, but it's useful for
developers to be familiar with them.
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