How to get accents on your keyboard

Samson

I'm sure some of these are not used, if so, let me know and I'll delete whatever is not required.
Obviously let me know if I have left anything out either.

Ç=ALT+0199
ç=ALT+0231

À=ALT+0192
à=ALT+0224
È=ALT+0200
è=ALT+0232
Ì=ALT+0204
ì=ALT+0236
Ò=ALT+0210
ò=ALT+0242
Ù=ALT+0217
ù=ALT+0249

Á=SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+a
á=CTRL+ALT+a
É=SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+e
é=CTRL+ALT+e
Í=SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+i
í=CTRL+ALT+i
Ó=SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+o
ó=CTRL+ALT+o
Ú=SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+u
ú=CTRL+ALT+u

Â=ALT+0194
â=ALT+0226
Ê=ALT+0202
ê=ALT+0234
Î=ALT+0206
î=ALT+0238
Ô=ALT+0212
ô=ALT+0244
Û=ALT+0219
û=ALT+0251

Samson

Another way of getting these is to use the character map (if you have it), and just select/copy/paste into your document.

To access the character map on your (Win9X) PC:
Start->Programs->Accesories->System Tools->Character Map.

Beruthiel

è

yehhhhh! ca marche Samson, filisitation!

Samson

Originally posted by Beruthiel
è

yehhhhh! ca marche Samson, filisitation!

Nous essayons notre meilleur!
(We try our best).

Beruthiel

Originally posted by Samson
Nous essayons notre meilleur!

ca marche

LoBo

The button just left of the 1 on your keyboard is a handy way of doing quick accents. Push it (nothing happens) then type a vowel. I got these ones:

èàùìò

Dun

These as well. I can't remember if they're all used in French..

Ä=ALT+0196
Ë=ALT+0203
Ï=ALT+0207
Ö=ALT+0214
Ü=ALT+0220
ä=ALT+0228
ë=ALT+0235
ï=ALT+0239
ö=ALT+0246
ü=ALT+0252

And I know this is the French board, but if any of you speak Spanish:
Ñ=ALT+0209
ñ=ALT+0241
¿=ALT+0191
¡=ALT+0161 (Inverted exclamation point)

or Portuguese
Ã=ALT+0195
Õ=ALT+0123
ã=ALT+0227
õ=ALT+0245

Dun

Also, I always found it useful to know this:

Upper case accented letters are not normally shown in french. So école is written Ecole in upper case.

The accute accent is found on only one letter - é. It's role is to turn the sound of the letter into an "ay" sound: lycée

The grave accent is found normally only on è.
It is only found on an 'a' on the preposition à (to distinguish it from il/elle 'a') and là (there - to distinguish it from the word 'la' - 'the').
It is found on 'u' in the word 'où' (where) distinguishing it from 'ou' (or).
On 'e' it changes the sound to a lengthened share sound:
grève.

The diaresis (two dots) is found on the second letter in certain combinations of vowels. It's role is to seperate the two vowel sounds (to show that it is not supposed to be a dipthong): Noël

The circonflex can occur on any vowel and sometimes lengthen it, although the sound change can be slight to non-existent. It often represented a missing 's' from its old Latin form, so words with a circonflex can often seem more like a word we know when you replace the circonflex with an 's' following the word (e.g. château - chasteau (closer to castle), vêtement - vestement (clothes (vestments)) or hôte - hoste (host).

The cedilla is found under a 'c' to show that an 's' sound is used where normally a 'k' should be used. This means that a ç will only be found before an a, o or u. - Français

esentziak

Nous essayons notre meilleur!

"Je fais de mon mieux"

esentziak

Nous essayons notre meilleur!

"Je fais de mon mieux" I do my best

"nous faison de notre mieux" we do our best

Nous essayons notre meilleur! : is a literal translation. (we try our best).

Don't mean to be pedantic; God loves a tryer, as a friend of mine always says.

esentziak (Newbie)

esentziak

Oops! don't know why I have posted twice on this. I certainly did not enter "submit reply" on the first one.

then again: a friend of my daughter is a bit forgetful, she describes herself as "a goldfish with Alzeiheimer".

Esentziak

lili

esentziak!
i liked, nous essayons notre meilleur:)

and it's an excellent way to me, to know how english people would tell it:p

esentziak

Actually, I am French but I have lived outside France for so long that my French is becoming just "passable".:D

Je reve meme an anglais maintenant.

Ca ne fait rien, je me debrouilles (est-ce qu'il y a un "S" a la fin?) toujours quand meme, mais pour les accents, je n'ai pas la patience!


Esentziak

lili

non, le S à la fin d'un verbe se met qu'à la deuxième personne du singulier.:)

Dun

Originally posted by lili
to know how english people would tell it:p

.. and us Irish people too

to say something (to someone) <peut exister sans quelqu'un, mais il faut avoir <<quelque chose>>
to tell somebody (something) <peut exister sans 'quelque chose', mais il faut avoir un sujet <<quelqu'un>>.

donc..

to know how English (or Irish ) people would say it.

lili

damn!
i knew it!
but i always make this mistake:)
is irish very different than english?

Dun

Irish is very different to English.

"Salut. Comment ça va? Je m'appelle Michael et je suis irlandais."
(en anglais)
Hello. How are you? My name is Michael and I'm Irish.
(en irlandais)
Hallo. Cad é mar atá tu? Mícheál is ainm dom agus is Éireannach mise.

I think you were confusing "English people" with English-speaking people (just like "French people = les Français", but "French-speaking people = Francophones").

lili

how irish is bizarre!
sound like latin language:eek:
but, what language do you use at school? sorry if that sound stupid but since not so far, i though that irish people spoken a pure english with an accent.

(tell me for spoken, i'm really not sure it was the good time i used:))

Dun

Ça dépend.. c'est comme la situation en Bretagne - il y a des lieux ou on parle la langue bretonne à la maison. Par hasard, le breton et l'irlandais sont cousins

La plupart des irlandais sont locateurs natifs de l'anglais. Il y a certains comptés qui contiennent des lieux où la langue native de la population générale est l'irlandais, ces lieux s'appellent <<Gaeltacht>>.

esentziak

The button just left of the 1 on your keyboard is a handy way of doing quick accents. Push it (nothing happens) then type a vowel. I got these ones:

J'ai essaye sur mon portable, mais ca ne marche pas. Quand j'appuiye sur ce bouton, j'obtien un accent grave, (donc, pas de "nothing happens") et la lettre que je tape apres n'a pas d'accent.

Est-ce que ca depends de la marque de l'ordinateur ou du portable?

J'ai un Sony Viao.

Esentziak

raphaelS

With Windows if you choose you're input language "English (Ireland)" then you can get:
les accents graves avec "Alt Gr" et la lettres:
áéóúí (not all of these are used in French though)
Et pour les accents aigus, avec la touche coincée entre le "esc" "1" et "Tab", appuyez d'abord sur la touche et ensuite la lettre à accentuée:
àùèòì (same as before not all are used in French...)

This is more easier to do that on a laptop keyboard than the ALT + Number...

Il manque encore la cedille, les accents circonflexe et le trema!

Raphael (oui il manque le trema!)

smileygal

you can also do accents aigus (forgive spelling if wrong, svp) by simultaneously pressing Ctrl, Alt and for example 'a' gives you á.

Very handy if you have an Irish name with a fada in it!

neadla

I printed out the symbols and my laptop has Windows XL and they don't seem to work. Is there any other way they might work.

I would appreciate a responce as it would be very helpful as I'm doing an MA in French at the mo.
Please reply as soon as possible!!
Cheers,

A plus,

neadla

neadla

Characters don't seem to work on my laptop. It's a brand new one though, so it should. Any suggestions?
:eek:

Calina

Neadla,

I realise this may be a nuisance for an MA thesis but what I usually do if I'm doing a lot in French is put them in the clipboard.

If you are using Word, you should be able to go to the Insert Menu, select Symbol and find the characters in there. Put them in a document and do a copy and paste. Realistically you should find out why the Alt-Gr or control options are not working for you. I'm assuming you're using Win XP and most versions of Word allow you to configure your own keyboard short cuts.

Let me know if you have still got problems.

Edit: when you highlight the accented letter in the symbol menu, there should, in the bottom LH corner of that dialogue box, be an indication of what the current short cut key is. This might be a place to start looking as to why they are not working. Also, check your keyboard layout - I'm not an expert on this but if it's set to English (US) that might be a factor too.

ambro25

Calina wrote:

If you are using Word (...)

Encore plus simple: if you're using Office XP (aka 2003), you can permanently shortcut the most-used accented vowels (and others, such as "ç" and the like) to the 'F' keys (F1, F2, F3, etc...). Can't remember how exactly, but it's in there, as I do translations regularly and this feature has been a lifesaver (in addition to *working* voice recognition software ).

For reference, I've mapped:

F2 - é
F3 - è
F4 - ê

F5 - à
F6 - ç
F7 - ô
F8 - ù

Works a treat, once you've mapped your own brain to this arrangement through use (or stickie'd symbols on the keys)

Calina

ambro25 wrote:

Encore plus simple: if you're using Office XP (aka 2003), you can permanently shortcut the most-used accented vowels (and others, such as "ç" and the like) to the 'F' keys (F1, F2, F3, etc...). Can't remember how exactly, but it's in there, as I do translations regularly and this feature has been a lifesaver (in addition to *working* voice recognition software ).

For reference, I've mapped:

F2 - é
F3 - è
F4 - ê

F5 - à
F6 - ç
F7 - ô
F8 - ù

Works a treat, once you've mapped your own brain to this arrangement through use (or stickie'd symbols on the keys)

That's brilliant. I didn't know that - it will be sorted out at home (don't yet have XP at work)

ambro25

Calina wrote:

Neadla,

(...)

Edit: when you highlight the accented letter in the symbol menu, there should, in the bottom LH corner of that dialogue box, be an indication of what the current short cut key is. This might be a place to start looking as to why they are not working. Also, check your keyboard layout - I'm not an expert on this but if it's set to English (US) that might be a factor too.

Calina,

As a matter of fact, I think (from my -very- imperfect memory) that it's in there somewhere that you assign the bindings.

Alt > I(nsert) > S(ymbol) and once you've got the symbol table up, look to the bottom of the pop-up menu/window/box... methinks

I'll have a quick look at home tonight and if you can't find it, just post in here & I'll reply with details

theCzar

how do you enter that exactly? whenever I push alt it activates the title bar?

but then this keyboard isn't excelling, its set up for american english i suspect.

ambro25

And a nearly year on...

Keyboard regional setting has nothing to with it.

You maintain the 'ALT' key pressed down, while you type in the combination of numbers on the keypad, then release all keys together, and voilà.

example/try this at home: à = press 'ALT' first, keep it pressed and type '389' on numeric keypad, release all.

tak

D'abord si l'on veut faire que des accents aigus et graves:-

Avec le clavier Microsoft ordinaire en langue Anglais (Irlandais) -

Pour faire é : Juste pressez et maintenez à terre les touches CTRL et ALT alors qu'on presse la touche "e".

Pour faire è : Juste pressez la touche "`" (i.e. la touche au dessus de TAB) avant de presser "e".

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o

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Si l'on veut de faire tous des accents, e.g. pour écrire une lettre/email francaise, on peut changer la langue et le clavier sur la barre de tache et alors utilisez l'image du clavier Microsoft francais

http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/kfrench.asp

en fenetre séparée pour selectionner les touches.

Bon Courage !

P.S. Chacun(e) sache-t-il/elle des autres trucs simples pour faire les circonflex, les umlauts, les cedilles, etc sur le clavier Microsoft sans changer la langue ?
Si oui, ne gardez-le pas un secret . . .

who is this

Dun wrote: »

Upper case accented letters are not normally shown in french. So école is written Ecole in upper case.

They may not be normally shown, but properly they are. The reason they aren't (or at least what I've read) is that on old typewriters there was barely room for all the normal accents, and there was no room at all for capitalised variants.

Maybe the above is wrong, but I know for a fact that the official way (per L'Académie Française) is to always have accents on letters which is why things like Word 2007 have an option to force them (since normal French keyboards still don't have keys for capitalised versions)

I personally use dead keys though (e.g. you get a dead key for cedilla when you push "Ctrl + Alt + COMMA (,)"

Terpsichore

Shorter short keys

ç alt 135
â alt 131
ä alt 132
à alt 133
á alt 160
ã alt 198
æ alt 145
ê alt 136
ë alt 137
è alt 138
ì alt 141
î alt 140
ï alt 139
Ĩ alt 296
ô alt 147
ö alt 148
õ alt 228
ű alt 369
ŭ alt 365
û alt 150
ù alt 151
Ü alt 154
ý alt 236 237
£ 156

Turbidine

Hi guys,

Look no further, this is the ultimate tool:
http://french.typeit.org/

You can type your text in there and then paste it somewhere else. It's quick and easy.
Read the note on the right handside.

Pour ceux qui cherchent comment taper les accents français, cliquez sur le lien. Si vous l'ouvrez dans Internet Explorer ce sera encore plus facile (lire la description à gauche).

Thomas828

Moi, je suis heureux. Je fais la plupart de mes postes sur mon portable, un Samsung E250 et je peux taper les lettres avec les accents par utiliser la mode ABC. Et si on peut envoyer SMS en français utilisant la mode T9, eh bien, il ne faut pas s'inquieter des accents. T9 forme tous les mots et tous les accents.

pluie

Apple Mac keyboard accents

é (alt + e)
í (alt + i)
ó (alt + o)
ú (alt + u)
á (alt + a)

Ç (alt + c + c)
æ (alt + ')
œ (alt + q)
ë (alt + 8 + e) you can then just use other vowels to get the same effect.
â (alt + 6 + a) you can then just use other vowels to get the same effect.

« and » (alt + \ and shift + alt + \) you sometimes see these symbols used as quotation marks when reading news articles and other compositions.


Voilà!

Captain Havoc

I have a Swiss keyboard

EhBenDisDonc

The English Extended keyboard seems to be very handy for accents.
See: http://french.about.com/od/writing/ss/typeaccents_3.htm

Fouady75

Merci beaucoup Simson