Reply to post: Re: Accented characters in windows

For pity's sake, you fool! DON'T UPGRADE it will make it worse

Peter2 Silver badge

Re: Accented characters in windows

Or just press the alt button and type the code of the accented thing, such as ALT-136 for e with an accent (îê.)

Most of them are in the extended ASCII set. You could then either print out a list (or more usefully) stick the common ones in macros tied to something she can use easily like the F1-F12 keys which are usually unused.

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