You did not fix the accents though. All my work finding them was useless :mad: ;) :D :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
[edit: fixed spelling of Juillet... Thanks Elrond!]
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You did not fix the accents though. All my work finding them was useless :mad: ;) :D :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
[edit: fixed spelling of Juillet... Thanks Elrond!]
Perhaps depends on the regional settings and the keyboard type you have installed...:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by Elrond
Doctor Luz: it does not work on my computer. At least not when I am writing directly in my browser to make a CG post. And it doesn't seem to work any where. I remeber it did work at one stage during my studies, but I can't remember on which system and with which tool (may be Emacs...).
And by the way, I don't have the '¨' key at all on my keyboard. That's why I am using a tool to make it when I want to write proper french. Fortunately, french can usually be understood without the accents, even if it's a little more difficult.
Yes it can be understood without accents.
Here are some codes you might want to use Alt+code to make the accents :
130 : é
138 : è
133 : *
135 : ç
(for those on a french keyboard), you can lookup the ascii table for all other codes. You type ALT+the code in decimal.
Marina
Yes, I know a bit of French (I could get around easily in a francophone country, but they would know I'm a foreigner!). I don't need to write stuff in French often. And I suppose I could just open up Word, write the characters there, then copy and paste them, but that would take a whole 10 seconds, whereas searching for this part of this thread would take ummm... my logic is flawed.Quote:
Originally posted by Elrond
Do you know French or did it take you hours to write your little text. Do you often need to write something in French to have the need to reference this page?
I don't know where you are from, but now I would have to guess somewhere in Europe perhaps but definitely not the US. In the US, keyboards are not "accent friendly," since no words in the language require accents (a few words "borrowed" from other languages - we Americans like to borrow - can be written with an accent for clarification, such as naïve). But European keyboards are much more accent friendly from what I have seen (most notably in Sweden), since so many languages there involve accents.Quote:
Originally posted by Doctor Luz
Don't you have the ´ key in your keyboard?
To write é I just push the ´ key and then the e key, the result is é.
The same with ` and ^ and ¨ éèêë
What! But of course I did! (Ignore the fact that the last edit time was right about now... ;))Quote:
Originally posted by Elrond
You did not fix the accents though. All my work finding them was useless
Thanks Marina! Now that I have stopped being stupid, I think I'll stick to opening Word and typing with Ctrl-V ;). Marina, every time I quote your name I want to write "Valiant"!Quote:
Originally posted by Marina Vaillant
Here are some codes you might want to use Alt+code to make the accents :
130 : é
138 : è
133 : *
135 : ç
(for those on a french keyboard), you can lookup the ascii table for all other codes. You type ALT+the code in decimal.
From Marina:
Yes, that's the irritating part. :DQuote:
Thanks Marina! Now that I have stopped being stupid, I think I'll stick to opening Word and typing with Ctrl-V . Marina, every time I quote your name I want to write "Valiant"!
Errrr......shouldn't it be 'Valiant' instead of 'Vaillant'?
Maybe your dad's surname is 'Valiant', but the person typing your birth certificate was kinda tired and mis-type and registered your surname wrongly? :eek::eek:
Aye~. This is to tell folks not to drink beer when they're working, or else they could end up making a serious mistake like the one highlighted above.
When you work, don't drink. When you wanna drink, drink coffee. If you don't, drink water. Like Xeon. :cool::cool:
Vaillant is the french word for valiant, anyway, so I don't care much.
It's true all english-speaking people want to call me valiant, like at airports if they call me, they say Valiant, or they write Valiant in the messages...
No, Xeon, it's not a mispelling. It's a real name.
Like if all "Dupont" in France were mispelled from "Ofthebridge" !!
Just to start a new subject, have you had your wise tooth removed?? This could be a poll subject.. I'd just had mine, and I wqs so stressed before, I'd like to talk a bit about it 'after'.
Marina
Autch! Why remove them?Quote:
Originally posted by Marina Vaillant
Just to start a new subject, have you had your wise tooth removed?? This could be a poll subject.. I'd just had mine, and I wqs so stressed before, I'd like to talk a bit about it 'after'.
Marina
I also went to a dentist a couples of years ago who told me we should remove them "because later they will make problems for sure". And now? "Now they're ok" -- the dude said. Duh...I still have them, and they're still ok.
I can also get around English speaking coutries easily now, and everyone still knows I'm a foreigner. Most are still able to say straight away that I am French, but no every one anymore (I have made some progress...). :DQuote:
Originally posted by solarflare
Yes, I know a bit of French (I could get around easily in a francophone country, but they would know I'm a foreigner!). I don't need to write stuff in French often. And I suppose I could just open up Word, write the characters there, then copy and paste them, but that would take a whole 10 seconds, whereas searching for this part of this thread would take ummm... my logic is flawed.
That's not entirely true. I am in Europe. But here in Ireland, they have american like keyboards. Very boring. How can you get some fun with so little keys ;) :rolleyes:Quote:
I don't know where you are from, but now I would have to guess somewhere in Europe perhaps but definitely not the US. In the US, keyboards are not "accent friendly," since no words in the language require accents (a few words "borrowed" from other languages - we Americans like to borrow - can be written with an accent for clarification, such as naïve). But European keyboards are much more accent friendly from what I have seen (most notably in Sweden), since so many languages there involve accents.
:D :p :D :p :cool:Quote:
What! But of course I did! (Ignore the fact that the last edit time was right about now... ;))
For Marina: I still have my wisdom teeth and don't plan to have them removed until I'll be old enoug so they fall by themselves.
Just have a look at them -> :D
I had my bottom ones removed when I was a kid (wait I still am)...it was very very very very very very very painful..I couldn't even enjoy the drugs they gave me....dentist said they were compacted, which is another meaning for 'I need this for my down payment on a new car'Quote:
Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
Autch! Why remove them?
I also went to a dentist a couples of years ago who told me we should remove them "because later they will make problems for sure". And now? "Now they're ok" -- the dude said. Duh...I still have them, and they're still ok.
Did I mention it was painful?
The spanish keyboards have lot of strange keys, including the ñ (ASCII 164) key which is a letter in the spanish alphabet. However the spanish keyboard is not the most strange keyboard in the world. Have you ever seen a pure japanese keyboard? These keyboards are the total madness! they don't have any western key.Quote:
Originally posted by Elrond
IThat's not entirely true. I am in Europe. But here in Ireland, they have american like keyboards. Very boring. How can you get some fun with so little keys ;) :rolleyes:
That was a good thing...for the dentist:DQuote:
Originally posted by Mick_2002
I had my bottom ones removed when I was a kid (wait I still am)...it was very very very very very very very painful..I couldn't even enjoy the drugs they gave me....dentist said they were compacted, which is another meaning for 'I need this for my down payment on a new car'
Did I mention it was painful?
About wise teeth :
-If you had your bottom ones removed, the top ones, if they appear, will grow infinitely. You'll have to have them removed too.
- My top ones were ok, but the bottom ones had not enough space to grow without pain and disturbing all the others (including making the front ones try to fit in one space!). :(
So I had to have them removed. It's not for everybody, some will have them ok, some will never see them, and other will have to have them removed.
I read that the fact that the babies don't drink milk from their mothers anyt more (less and less), they don't practice the muscles of their jaws early, and then it does not develop big enough to host those teeth. Seems weird, but true according to my doctor. Another thing is that the human kind don't need to use them any more, we don't chew that much, having smoother food to eat.
About foreign keyboards: I 've seen spanish keyboard, it's fun with the reverse ?, too! :) By the way if there were a Breton keyboard, I guess there would be a ñ too, because it's used!
In Sweden, you get the ö, ä and the å directly as a key because they are letters and not accentuated letters (the alphabet is a to ö).
Marina
My home computer have a french keyboard. So at least I know how a keyboard more complex looks (at least 6 to 10 additional keyboard symbols, for the same number of keys, ...).Quote:
Originally posted by Doctor Luz
The spanish keyboards have lot of strange keys, including the ñ (ASCII 164) key which is a letter in the spanish alphabet. However the spanish keyboard is not the most strange keyboard in the world. Have you ever seen a pure japanese keyboard? These keyboards are the total madness! they don't have any western key.
I have never seen an asian keyboard though. I guess it must be very strange. I'd like to know how so many chinese are on this forum. Do they have chinese or english keyboards? Same for the russian people (dimm_coder, do you hear me? ;) )
After having the bottom ones removed, I swore I'd never have the top ones removed...and if I had a say in the whole thing I'd still have my bottom ones, the top ones came in just fine...I'm still traumatized by it. They say it's worse when your older but I can't see screaming in agony for days being that much worse :) Guess mine were a little more difficult being that they had to cut the gum open and you know break the teeth apart and dig around for kicks...well I think I'm going to be sick now :)Quote:
Originally posted by Marina Vaillant
About wise teeth :
-If you had your bottom ones removed, the top ones, if they appear, will grow infinitely. You'll have to have them removed too.
- My top ones were ok, but the bottom ones had not enough space to grow without pain and disturbing all the others (including making the front ones try to fit in one space!). :(
So I had to have them removed. It's not for everybody, some will have them ok, some will never see them, and other will have to have them removed.
I read that the fact that the babies don't drink milk from their mothers anyt more (less and less), they don't practice the muscles of their jaws early, and then it does not develop big enough to host those teeth. Seems weird, but true according to my doctor. Another thing is that the human kind don't need to use them any more, we don't chew that much, having smoother food to eat.
Marina
Dentist's along with squirrels are EVIL...except for that dentist in the rudolph specials...he's kinda kewl...
Yeh... your summons was so loudly :DQuote:
Originally posted by Elrond
I have never seen an asian keyboard though. I guess it must be very strange. I'd like to know how so many chinese are on this forum. Do they have chinese or english keyboards? Same for the russian people (dimm_coder, do you hear me? ;) )
Hm... I never see any other keybords , someone have told
about small keys :confused: on a keybord... What is this?
Especially russian language has 33 letters, Belarussian - 32 in compare to 26 in English. So for ex. (donot know how many of them will be in appropriate view with your coding )
-¨ÉÞÜßÁÛÚÖÔ×
ÌÈÐ ÄÐÓÆÁÀ ÆÂÀ×ÊÀ - PEACE FRIENDSHIP CHEWING GUM :D
Ha ... there are enough words in belarussian lang which are the
same by sound to english - for ex. honour - ãî**ð ...