Characters with Accents

[Fred vanderZee]

On my keyboard I can type the accent and then a character to make an accented character. E.g. " + e -> ë (same for other vowels), ' + A -> Á, ~+ n -> ñ, '+ c -> ç, ' + i -> í, ` + o -> ò. Etcetera. Keyboard US international. Works for me in Xara as well.

[Acorn]

On my keyboard I can type the accent and then a character to make an accented chracter. E.g. " + e -> ë (same for other vowels), ' + A -> Á, ~+ n -> ñ, '+ c -> ç, ' + i -> í, ` + o -> ò. Etcetera. Keyboard US international. Works for me in Xara as well.

Thanks Fred, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ted-characters is effectively another hunt 'n' peck mechanism.

I had set up my keyboard for UK Extended (https://just-this-side-of-sane.blogs...-keyboard.html), I had never considered US Intl as it flips other keys on my physical keyboard.

The point I am making is simply with so many hacks around, surely Xara could stand out. Perhaps the hyped magic wheel that Magix PR had in its dire video?

I have also used on-line virtual keyboards - https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/latin_alphabet.htm.

Acorn

[ernie-f]

All aplication I use for my design work have a Glyph-Table where you can find a glyph you don't know its ALT-Code. Only Xara fails. For this I use a small helper called PopChar for Windows.

[Acorn]

Only Xara fails.

Thanks ernie. PopChar costs. As I already have and use Affinity Designer, I might just have to use its Glyph Browser...

...@Xara - it seems a quick win to add glyph collections to the Symbol character picker you already have.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

mwenz - How does Corel do this? You posted a screen shot a while back that was similar to the popup on smart phone keyboards.

[mwenz]

Hi Gary, CD doesn't have the facility to replace non-accented for accented type. It, like all applications should, rely on the keyboard input. I don't consider it a hack...

CD does have a glyph browser and one can hunt & peck to do replacements. But I use various keyboards, US, US International, heck, Polish. It's easy enough to switch between them for the language at hand. Rarely do I use a glyph browser.

When I do use a glyph browser in applications that do not have one (Yes, Xara, I'm mostly thinking about you...), I typically use BableMap as it is Unicode compliant and is pretty fully featured...and free.

Mike

[Acorn]

BableMap ... is Unicode compliant and is pretty fully featured...and free. Mike

Mike, thank you for this find: http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html.

Back on Xara.

Acorn