Typing Diacritical Or Accent Marks; Using The Alt Key - Intermec Janus 2010 User Manual

JANUS 2010 Hand-Held Computer User's Manual
To practice using an international keypad, type these characters
• To type a left parenthesis on a French keypad, press
*
5
• To type the number 5 on a French keypad, press
( [
• To type an asterisk (*) on a French keypad, press
• To type a left bracket on a French keypad, press
intro • To type the number 2 on a Spanish keypad, press
"
2
• To type double quotes (") on a Spanish keypad, press
@
• To use the intro function on a Spanish keypad, press
• To type the @ character on a Spanish keypad, press

Typing Diacritical or Accent Marks

You may need to type a special character with a diacritical or accent mark, such
as Â, Ã, Ä. You use the
that do not have an actual key on the keypad.
To type a diacritical or accent mark
1. Press
2. Press the key the diacritical mark appears above. For example, press
3. Press the key or key combination for the character you are modifying. For
If you try to modify a character to which the diacritical mark does not apply,
the reader sounds an error beep and displays the diacritical mark and the
incorrect character.
Note: The characters above O and U constitute the 102nd key on a 101/102 enhanced
PC keyboard. Both characters produce scan code 56H.

Using the Alt Key

On all versions of the reader's international keypads, the right Alt key is
identical to the Alt Gr key on international PC keyboards.
• To enter a right Alt key, press
• To enter a left Alt key, press
8-12
f
f
.
the French keypad to type the ¨ diacritical mark.
u A
example, press
the uppercase letter A and type the character Ä.
Or, to type the diacritical mark only, press
key to type a diacritical mark and access characters
on the French keypad to add the ¨ diacritical mark to
s
f a
.
.
5
u . 5
f 5
. Press .
a . Press 5 .
. Press .
2
. u 2
f 2
. Press .
a . Press 2 .
. Press .
.
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