configure few keys of my laptop

Hello,

I would like to configure few keys of my laptop.

I need to key often few letters which are not on the keyboard: à , é , ì , ò
, ù , which are the 5 vowels with the accent â?? over each one.

Can you tell me on how to program just the keyboard or just the 5 keys to
have the vowels with the accent â?? over each one?

Ad example it would convenient to me if by keying: â??controlâ??, or alt ,or the
windows key, + â??aâ?? I would get â??àâ?? (the a with the accent over it).

Thank you very much for your help.

Leonard
Tue Apr 22 06:42:16 PDT 2008

Character Map does this and is described in the Help and Support Center.

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Leonard Grey
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Fabiop wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to configure few keys of my laptop.
>
> I need to key often few letters which are not on the keyboard: à , é , ì , ò
> , ù , which are the 5 vowels with the accent â?? over each one.
>
> Can you tell me on how to program just the keyboard or just the 5 keys to
> have the vowels with the accent â?? over each one?
>
> Ad example it would convenient to me if by keying: â??controlâ??, or alt ,or the
> windows key, + â??aâ?? I would get â??Ã â?? (the a with the accent over it).
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>

Ken
Wed Apr 23 14:37:08 PDT 2008

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:43:01 -0700, Fabiop
<fabio_puntillo@yahoo.com(donotspam)> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to configure few keys of my laptop.
>
> I need to key often few letters which are not on the keyboard: à , é , ì , ò
> , ù , which are the 5 vowels with the accent ? over each one.
>
> Can you tell me on how to program just the keyboard or just the 5 keys to
> have the vowels with the accent ? over each one?
>
> Ad example it would convenient to me if by keying: ?control?, or alt ,or the
> windows key, + ?a? I would get ?à? (the a with the accent over it).


Instead of what you ask, I use and recommend a little freeware
background program called AllChars. This lets me type many common
special characters (many of these are used in other languages) by
pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic
combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/

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