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From: grahams@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: French accents under MS WORD ? help beginner...
Message-ID: <11520@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 19:53:03 GMT
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In article <28808@shamash.cdc.com> paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) writes:
>michel@etl.go.jp (Michel Pasquier) writes:
>
>>In article <20263.2741568c@oregon.uoregon.edu> Jean Diel (dieljean@oregon.uoregon.edu) had asked:
>
>>>>	Therefore the question is how do you get those extra ASCII characters
>>>>through the US keyboard, is there a way like on other computers to configure
>>>>the keyboard in French ? should she buy a French Keyboard ?
>
>Has anyone suggested the INIT called PopChar. This gives a very easy way to get
>to those characters that are available but don't appear on your keyboard. This
>INIT is Shareware and available in lots of places.
>
Sounds like this should become a FAQ (Frequently Asked Question).
The simplest answer, as has been pointed out, is that the standard
additional letters for most European languages are available as
option-<key> as part of the standard Mac interface. The simplest
way to find them is through KeyCaps (which is why this is provided).

While doing an option-keystroke for letters may seem tedious for
some people, I have found it easy to become accustomed to through
frequent use.

You should also know that both Nisus and Word have foreign-language
spelling dictionaries available (though US$75 is a bit expensive
for the Word ones). I dimly recall that similar dictionaries are
available for MacWrite. Oh, yes, PageMaker also has optional
foreign-language spelling&hyphenation dictionaries available,
again at a relatively high price.

Steve Graham
graham@isis.ee.washington.edu