Q: How do type accents for foreign language
A: For languages using the roman alphabet (French, German, Italian, Spanis, et. al), follow the instructions below.
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There are only two steps you need to take
to start typing accents and diacritical marks on your computer.
- 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. Again, Mac users are exempt, and have
only one key sequence to deal with.
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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 good WYSIWYG
editor like Dreamweaver will handle this for you, but it’s useful for
developers to be familiar with them.
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