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3.3 Compound input

With many of the compound special characters it is possible to enter the diacritical

character first and then the letter. The diacritical character will not appear at first

and is then combined with the letter to form a special character.

With a German keyboard layout, press for example the keys ´ (acute) and "a" one

after the other to obtain the character á (a-acute).

The keys with the diacritical characters, which are thus dealt with in a special way,

are marked with a special color in the descriptions of the keyboard layouts.

Keyboard assignments

The table below shows some keyboard layouts for the supported diacritical

U.S International

Obtain a graphical representation of your keyboard layout to learn which key

combinations produce the diacritical characters.

Keyboard layout in picture form

Images of the keyboard layouts can be obtained from Microsoft via the Internet at

the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx

If you press the space bar after the diacritical character, you will see the character

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