[nabs-l] Making foreign Language symbols

[Greg Aikens]

An easier solution than having to type in these number combinations is to install the keyboard for the language you need to be working in. That way you can type normally and add whatever accents or symbols as you go. I have done this for Spanish, Greek and Hebrew. 

Maybe if you are more specific about what system you are using people can offer more suggestions. I was working with Jaws 9 and Vista at the time I had this set up. I had to add the keyboards to something called the language bar. I needed some sighted assistance in setting up the language bar initially, but once I had, switching between the various keyboards could be done with a keystroke. Alt+Shift if I remember correctly. 

I'm sorry I don't remember the details more clearly. 

Hope this helps. 

Greg
On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home wrote:

> You do it by turning on num lock and then holding down the alt key and punching in on the numpad the ascii code for the symbol. I know the codes for the german umlauts.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
> To: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>; "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:51 PM
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>> No I am talking like Microsoft word on PC.
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>> On 1/10/11, Ashley  Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Are you refering to writing in braille or the keyboard?
>>> If typing, not sure but certain key combinations make the accented letters.
>>> Dots are accents usually.
>>> If you mean braille, there are contracted braille symbols to stand for the
>>> accented letters.
>>> Foreign languages are written in uncontracted braille.
>>> 
>>> Ashley
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
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>>> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:18 PM
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>>>> Hi all!
>>>> 
>>>> Hope your semesters have begun great!  I had a question.  Does anyone
>>>> know how to make those fancy symbols when writing in foreign language?
>>>> Like the 2 dots above a "u" in a German word and so on.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Justin
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