On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:04:30 +1000, "Jean Hollis Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm hoping someone here can steer me in the right direction. I'm > using an English version of Thunderbird on WinXP, with an > international English keyboard. > > How do I insert non-English characters into email? I'm > particularly interested in French, German and Spanish characters, > but I'd also like to do Russian. > > I do have the required fonts. At least, I think I must have them, > because when I receive email in any of those languages, all the > characters display fine, and I can copy and paste them... I just > don't know how to insert them when typing. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > Cheers, Jean
A very handy little Windows utility for "English" keyboards is _AllChars for Windows_ at http://allchars.zwolnet.com/and it is freeware,of course, though not yet Open Source :). I imagine it works on an international one too since IIRC the author is German. It does nice things like ç or ã or ¶ at the stroke of , well, three keys; the mnemonics are pretty easy good, for example is Ctl + ee and although I have not tried to do it, I believe one can custom it to function like OOo's autocorrect replace. I use it with OOo, Word, and Firefox among other programs. It essentially creates the 'dead keys ' found on most "International" keyboards. It makes 'special characters' look like the unwieldy kludge that it is. ----- John Kane Kingston ON Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613)888-2399 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different
