Typing accented letters and other diacritics can be tricky if you don't have the right keyboard, and lots of languages seem to have developed conventions for representing them ( Read more... )

Bonjour à tous!

I have installed the French (France) keyboard onto my computer and am finally starting to get used to it. I am having a bit of trouble though when it comes to capitalization.

Could someone please explain, or give me a link to something that explains, how to type these capital letters:

é , à , ç , ù , è

Again, I downloaded the French ( ( Read more... )

There is a phenomenon common, even in professional papers, to English writing in which the author overlooks diacritics and essentially transcribes words into the English alphabet. For example, in this The Telegraph article on foreign words, Tantenverführer is spelled tantenverfuhrer. In this Turkish Food 101, çay is spelled cay. What I am wondering ( Read more... )

Is there a word or phrase that accurately describes when people write English in a highly "foreignised" fashion, accentuating each foregin word by leaving them in a (semi-)unaltered format (other than "being a pretentious prick")?

E.g.

"Pædagogy has been a highly-important field throughout history. Often, when one looks through the façade of ( Read more... )

I'm sure that someone has already mentioned this, but I'd just realised that háček is written with a háček!!!

Does anyone know of a way to input Esperanto diacritics on Mac OS X Tiger? Alt-i-c creates ˆc; it does not place the circumflex over the letter. Short of an easy way to input it into the text, is there a separate, Mac-friendly program that I can download so that I can at least copy and paste ( Read more... )