Foreign Language Character Input on Windows 7 in the LRC

2012/08/16 plagwitz Leave a comment Go to comments

The LRC, now on Windows 7, is testing Carly J. Born’s U.S. International Extended 2.0 Keyboard, an improvement on the previously used US International Keyboard (still recommended for personal use, as it comes standard with all but ancient versions of Windows) for typing accented characters in Western languages, Pinyin-tone-marks for Mandarin (replacing the also useful, but more evolved Pinyinput), and other SLA tone- and length-marks e.g. for Latin.
Not limited to specific application, you can use anywhere in Windows the following shortcut’s – taken from the original developer documentation (with some minor modifications).
We hope you find the benefit for SLA far outweighs the need to getting used to typing a space between the 2 red characters and a vowel, in order to produce their regular form, without creating a foreign language character.

acute accent, pinyin 2nd tone	apostrophe (= ‘), vowel	(e.g. á é í ó ú)
grave accent, pinyin 4th tone	grave (= `), vowel	(e.g. à è ì ò ù)
c cedilla	comma apostrophe, c	(e.g. ç)
macron accent, pinyin 1st tone	hyphen, vowel	(e.g. ā ē ī ō ū )
vowel with umlaut	double-quote (= “), vowel	(e.g. ä ë ï ö ü ÿ)
vowel with circumflex	shift+6 (= ^), vowel	(e.g. â ê î ô û)
pinyin 3rd tone	Shift+5, vowel	(e.g. ǎ ě ǐǒǔ)
ü with pinyin tones	Accent, double-quote	(e.g. ǖǘǚǜ)
letter with tilde	tilde (= ~), letter	(e.g. õ ñ ã)
letter with dot below	shift+period, letter	(e.g. ạ ẹ Ẹ ị ọ ụ)
letter with double acute	shift+; , o or u	(e.g. ő, ű, Ő, Ű)
«	ctrl + alt + [
»	ctrl + alt + ]
€	ctrl + alt + 5
ß	ctrl + alt + s/right-ALT + s
ø	ctrl + alt + l	[won’t work in word, onenote, but works in excel]
¿	ctrl + alt + /
¡	ctrl + alt + 1	[To type ¡, disable the command called ApplyHeading1 in the Format category, in word or onenote, but not needed in excel]
œ	Right alt + k

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