Typing Accented Vowels in Windows

[James M Tonn (jtonn@Princeton.EDU)]

Bruno,
   You can add a Unicode acute accent to the last character typed by holding down the Alt key and pressing 769 on your numeric keypad (at the right of a standard keyboard), as long as the current font is a Unicode one.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruno Aeschbacher <yh.onurb at ONURB.CH>
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:58 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Typing Accented Vowels in Windows
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

> Dear Seelangers,
> 
> Do you know if there is an easy way to type stressed (accented) 
> Russianvowels (á, é, ý, etc.) in Windows XP SP2:
> 
> - using the standard Russian keyboard layout provided with Windows 
> XP (i.e.
> without installing a third-party keyboard driver)
> - using a standard Unicode font provided with Windows XP which 
> includes the
> range "non spacing letters" (eg Lucida Unicode)
> - which will let me type accented letters anywhere in Windows, not 
> just in
> MS Word where it seems to be relatively easy to do so.
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bruno Aeschbacher
> Geneva, Switzerland
> 
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