GLOBAL STUDIO GUIDES MAY 2015 Typing in Languages Other Than English: Roman Characters (Windows)
A Quick-Start Guide Things to Remember
Windows offers several ways to insert accented letters and other special characters used in languages other than English. • Some languages that use the Roman alphabet One way is to install and use an alternate keyboard; however, require characters that are if you are used to typing on a standard US QWERTY keyboard, not built into the United be aware that this will change the location of the keys. States-International keyboard. For these Another method is to use the numerical keyboard to enter languages (e.g., Czech, the ASCII code for the character you need. This is an Polish), installing alternate especially good method when you need a special character (e.g., keyboards or entering the € sign, which is 0128) occasionally. Simply find the ASCII ASCII or Unicode codes is number of the character you need and type it while required. holding down the ALT key. A good list of ASCII codes for world languages is located at http://www.starr.net/is/type/ • Use the On-Screen altnum.htm. Keyboard to see where special characters and symbols are located. For Western European languages, the easiest way to type accents is to install and use the United States International • To activate the On- keyboard. These instructions explain how to do that for Screen Keyboard, go to Windows 7 but can be adapted for other versions of Windows. Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > On-Screen INSTALLING THE US-INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD Keyboard. If you need this • Go to Start > Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region frequently, you can pin it to the task bar. • Click Change keyboards or other input methods. • You need to select a keyboard for each application that you open. • If you use an alternate keyboard frequently, you can make it your default by changing the Default input language on the screen where one adds keyboards.