[DannyD]

I'm wondering how do I use Irish characters in ascii ? I've searched google and read the stickys here in the forums but can't find anything.


Thanks in advance.

[Funkstard]

Hold the 'Alt Gr' button (to the right of the space bar) and press the vowel at the same time. Eg. Alt Gr + a = .......
....... .....wtf? it's not working..... emm, my keyboards just fudged, it works tho

[Bard]

Activate the English (Ireland) keyset and it works. In Windows XP this can be located under Regional and Language options in Control Panel. Then use AltGr with your vowels to get the fadas.

áéíóú

[Yoda]

Fada, of course, is an adjective. "Cuir síneadh fada ar an a sin" 'Put a long mark on that a'. The plural of síneadh fada is sínte fada.

In English, we have the perfectly good word "acute" which is applied to the ´, just as "grave" is applied to `, "circumflex" to ^, and so on.

Must we nominalize the adjective and pluralize it?

[Yoda]

In OS X 10.2 and later, just type option-vowel for áéíóú and shift-option-vowel for ÁÉÍÓÚ.

[lintdrummer]

Alt Gr doesn't work on my pc. My regional settings are for Ireland but I can't get fadas working.
Also, I have to press shift and 2 to get an @ sign and i have to press shift and ' to get qoutation marks. this shud be the other way round.

[Lukin Black]

You must have English (Ireland) with a US or International keyboard set up. Go into the control panel and have a gander under the Keyboard settings, or "Regional and Language Settings", under Windows XP.

Screenshot attached..

After you do that, your Alt Gr will work, and your @ / " keys will return to their normal place.

[Lukin Black]

And for those running Linux, niallb posted info here.

[lintdrummer]

Ok. Thats sorted it when I'm writin in word or notepad, but here in this text box it's not working. If I press alt gr and 'a' here, my list of favourites opens.

[Lukin Black]

Are you doing it while the cursor is in a text box? If you don't have, then it will open up the Favourites menu because it treats it as Alt+A.

[Garth Farley]

A handy enough way for Windows is to know the ascii code number for the character you want, easily found at http://www.asciitable.com, then hold down ALT, type in the number on the numeric keyboard (num lock on) & release ALT.

So for é - hold ALT, type 130, release ALT.

Handy
GF

[Yoda]

Codswallop. Typing in a numeric sequence is by no means "handy". For a "handier" keyboard layout specification, see my Celtic keyboard site

[Capt'n Midnight]

Have a look at
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/m...ar/windows.htm
for more info - also some apps for other Celtic layouts - welsh etc.

The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator -
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
- if you ever wanted to replace JKQWXYZ etc with ÁÉÍÓÚ

BTW: The Portugese Brazillian keyboard is very handy for getting other chars - it's based on the US keyboard so £/# nand @/" etc. are mixed - but you can use :~^' ` to get umlauts cidellas and accents without having to remember any funny numbers ..

[Suaimhneach]

i have been pressing alt gr and [ for years, not knowing it was only alt, its saved me to much time, thanking you very much!

[The Reaper]

Originally posted by Lukin Black
Are you doing it while the cursor is in a text box? If you don't have, then it will open up the Favourites menu because it treats it as Alt+A.

kewl
kinda know something
similar
but thats better