Typing Strange Characters–#SQLNewBlogger
source link: https://voiceofthedba.com/2023/06/28/typing-strange-characters-sqlnewblogger/
Go to the source link to view the article. You can view the picture content, updated content and better typesetting reading experience. If the link is broken, please click the button below to view the snapshot at that time.
Typing Strange Characters–#SQLNewBlogger
I’ve had to type a few non-English characters lately, and this blog talks about how to do this.
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.
The Need for Non-English Characters
Recently I wrote a blog on using Chinese characters. While you can copy/paste from Google, perhaps you want to actually type something regularly. For example, I have been learning French, and I sometimes need to
Another one I’ve used fairly often is the British pound symbol.
Typing Unicode characters
There are Unicode characters for these symbols. While some keyboards may include these, the US ones do not. I can switch keyboards, and I have a Japanese keyboard, but
A few commons ones for me are:
- é (French e with acute (forward) accent) – 0233
- è (French e with the grave accent) – 0232
- ô (French o with the circumflex) – 0244
- ç (French c with the cedilla,hanging thing) – 0231
- £ (British pound symbol) – 0163
- はい (Japanese yes, hai) – a little harder
To type these, I press the ALT key and hold it. Then I enter the number. So, holding ALT and entering 0163 gives me this: £
The Japanese is a little harder. There I needed to enable the Microsoft IME keyboard that lets me type the phonetics for Japanese characters. There are other ways to do this, but that’s what I did.
Learning to work with other languages and characters has been interesting to me, and it’s nice to be able to type São Paulo instead of Sao Paulo. Especially when I communicate with people whose names contain non English letters.
8 Responses to Typing Strange Characters–#SQLNewBlogger
-
bluecollarcritic says:
Steve – So is it possible using the on-screen keyboard to have that keyboard using say the Japanese character set without changing what language is being used for the Windows UI and without changing how your physical keyboard works?
-
way0utwest says:
What I do is hit Windows+Space and it switches. Be default, I have the English characters, same ones. Then there is a little “A” in the task bar. I can click that and switch from English to the IME（Japanese for me）
I can type English with the Japanese keyboard, but sometimes it inserts the character when it’s read a phonetic. It’s not too cumbersome, and I only turn it on when I want to try something.
-
brianary says:
You can also use Windows Key + . (period) to open up the Unicode menu, which has accented characters under Ω, then é (if I recall correctly). All kinds of emoji and other characters are in there, and you can browse for them instead of memorizing alt codes (although I still use Alt + 26 for →).
-
That’s interesting. Good for finding a character, but looks really annoying if I had to get a bunch of things typed.
-
-
Greg Moore says:
For taking notes in One Note for my PA prereqs I created a page to remember the shortcuts because I use some so much:
Alt – 0176 – degree °
Alt – 224 – alpha α
Alt – 225 – beta ß
Alt – 916 – delta Δ
Alt – 230 – micro µ -
Thom A says:
I find myself switching between using ENG UK and ENG UKX for my keyboard layout (and switching is easy enough with Win/Super+Space), as it makes accessing some characters easier. For example in UKX pressing [Alt Gr]+6 (releasing) and then u produces û. Back tick (`) followed by o produces ò. I do find I swap back to UK afterwards though, as I frequently use characters like backticks when I don’t want an accented character and pushing my brain to use `, Esc when in UKX to get the character is a little annoying.
Annoyingly the UKX layout differs slightly between different operating systems. For example an eszett (ß) when I’m using Linux is [Alt Gr]+S, but on Windows I’ve no idea how to get to it other than with a different tool.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Recommend
About Joyk
Aggregate valuable and interesting links.
Joyk means Joy of geeK