Comments | linguaphiles: œ

hector_von_kyiv in linguaphiles

œ

Oct 12, 2007 08:43

Is there a way to type "œ" on starndard French (AZERTY) or on US International keyboard layout?

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kaji_sensei October 12 2007, 06:44:15 UTC

I believe it's Option+Q on the standard US layout for Macs. I know that's what it is on the US-Extended layout (which I prefer since it has access to more diacritics and such).

paulistano October 12 2007, 07:48:25 UTC

One may criticize Macs for other things (you won't hear any criticisms from me though), but one cannot say they're hard to use. I adore typing in a foreign language on a Mac, it's such a humongoue pain in the neck to attempt to do so on a PC.

franzeska October 12 2007, 15:54:02 UTC

The foreign language support really is impressive.

hector_von_kyiv October 12 2007, 07:57:33 UTC

Errr, I forgot to mention that I'm talking about PC :)

alienor77310 October 12 2007, 07:46:52 UTC

Alt+0156

hector_von_kyiv October 12 2007, 07:56:21 UTC

Wow, great :) Now, what's left is to find a trick to memorize this number. Let's see... "0" looks like "o" and "6" is like flipped "e"... And what about 15? :)

ex_uniquewo October 12 2007, 08:46:27 UTC

O is the fifteenth letter in the Roman alphabet? (That wouldn't help me but *shrug*)

tailerouge October 12 2007, 16:35:53 UTC

Alternatively, if you don't have a separate numeric keypad (such as on a laptop), you can enter the Unicode directly. For œ, it would be 0153 Alt-X. [Note that the number itself is different from the keypad version.]

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ex_uniquewo October 12 2007, 08:52:18 UTC

If you're fond of Firefox, there's a useful extension called abcTajpu that lets you type all sorts of letters from several languages (link). Enter Alt+F1 and click on your character or right click, select your language and character. You can also set your own keyboard shortcuts, I believe.

feverladynippon October 12 2007, 13:29:23 UTC

I've been wondering this myself, thank you. Does anyone know how to produce 'ø' on PC?

areia October 12 2007, 14:15:41 UTC

Alt+0248

And for general reference:

Windows Alt Codes

rgovrebo October 12 2007, 15:43:56 UTC

I just press the 'ø' key. But thanks, I've bookmarked that page!

areia October 12 2007, 15:50:49 UTC

Now that I live in the US, typing the name of my own country (België) has become a lot more troublesome...

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superslowmo October 12 2007, 14:57:21 UTC

well, i can't find that on the US-International layout, but what i do for when i have to type something strange like latin for which my keyboard doesn't have symbols, i set up macros in microsoft word or just use the character map. :/