[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Importance of diacritic letters

[Jerry Frank]

Everyone has their favourites and there certainly are a variety of options.

If you use the original reference I gave at GOOGLE Translation http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT 

Every language available has a little keyboard symbol in the bottom left corner of the insert text box.  Click on it and an enlarged version will appear.  You can now type directly from your real keyboard following the layout shown without the need to click on special letters.  Where needed for additional symbols or diacritics, use Alt+Ctrl and of course, CapsLock or Shift.  To turn it off, click the icon again and you are back to a normal keyboard.

For example, with German as the language, use the semi-colon key to type an o with umlaut.  If you then need to type a semi-colon, just click the icon to turn off the special keyboard and you can type it.

Set it for Russian and you can type out Cyrillic text directly on your own keyboard.  Remember that this is a translation device, not a transliteration device.  You cannot expect it to convert your surname into Cyrillic letters for you.



Jerry




----- Original Message -----
From: Albert Muth <albertmuth734 at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Importance of diacritic letters
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> The character map that Reiner describes is cumbersome to use, 
> but every PC
> has it.
> 
> If you write in a foreign language often, you probably should 
> install an
> alternate keyboard.  This happens often in multinational 
> companies.  When I
> worked in Spain a number of years ago, I used the Spanish 
> keyboard easily.
> 
> For ease in writing just a few words at a time in foreign 
> languages with
> many diacritics, it is easy to use a "virtual keyboard".  
> There are many
> options for you to refer to on the Internet.  The one that 
> Günther mentions
> at http://gate2home.com works perfectly well for many different 
> languages.My problem is that it is UGLY and I have to look at it.
> 
> For Polish, I have used
> http://www.5goldig.de/Polnische_Tastatur/polnisch_keyboard.html 
> first, and
> now mostly http://polish.typeit.org/
> 
> For Ukrainian, I use http://ua.translit.cc/
> 
> The best treatment I have seen of what diacritics are cross-
> linguisticallyand what the issues are to represent them in 
> computing is at
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/dia/diacritics-
> revised.htm  This may
> offer more information than most people want, but if you are 
> curious, read
> it.
> 
> Like Reiner, I also use PAF as my genealogy software since it 
> can spell
> Polish correctly.
> 
> Al Muth
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Günther Böhm 
> <GHBoehm at ish.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am 17.10.2011 23:04, schrieb Reiner Kerp:
> > > Meanwhile I found Windows also has a key for it.
> > >
> > > Select "Start" and choose: all programs
> > >
> > > choose "system tools"
> > >
> > > an then "character table".
> > >
> > > This leeds you to a window with the letters of all the fonts 
> installed> > on your PC.
> > > Here you can copy all the letters you need for your words 
> and paste
> > > them into your texts. If you past them into GOOGLE 
> Translator, you
> > > may even find, how it sounds when spoken (unfortionately often
> > > incorrect).
> > >
> > > all the best,
> > > Reiner
> > Hallo Reiner (Englischtraining ;-) ),
> > much easier is the virtual keyboard at http://gate2home.com .
> > You want your name in Georgian?
> >
> >    სუფთა
> >
> > Regards,
> > Günther
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