Special characters with Dvorak

[appie747]

Hi, I'm using Dvorak since I started to learn touch-typing a few years ago. in MS Word I can get special characters, using the Ctrl button. For instance é ë and à. In Dutch you need that a lot.
But outside MS Word (also here) this doesn't work. Just now I had to switch back to qwerty. Or use ascii-code: é (Alt 0233) I'm not happy using that a lot...
Anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks!

[Viett]

There should be quite a few Dvorak-International variants floating around. This one looks like it was made with Dutch in mind, so you might want to give it a try.

[appie747]

Thank you Viett! Here at home ik works great! Sometimes I have to write an e-mail in German and I can use "ß" that's grëät! Can't install it at work, I'll have to convince the IT department...

[Zet]

perhaps you could try using AutoHotKey to make a few scripts with your special characters

[appie747]

perhaps you could try using AutoHotKey to make a few scripts with your special characters

Hey, thanks, that's a good idea! I'm already using autohotkey at work (to remap the backspace to capslock, and a couple of other things) so no trouble to add some lines for the special characters! (why didn't I think of that myself, I wonder...)

[appie747]

Hi, I tried to make a script in Autohotkey to create special characters.
line: ^"e::ë but that gave an error.
how should I do that?
Please forgive my less than basic programming skills....

[Zet]

better try it like this:
^"w::
Send ë
return

[appie747]

better try it like this:
^"w::
Send ë
return

Okay, I'll try that, thanks!

[Zet]

Okay, I'll try that, thanks!

did it work?

[appie747]

did it work?

Thanks for asking, but I haven't found the time to try it out at work. I'll let you know.

[Zet]

better try it like this:
^"w::
Send ë
return

 
lol, sorry for my typo there, the real code would be this one instead:

Code: [Select]

^"e::
Send ë
return

Just install AutoHotKey, paste the code in a .txt file, change the extension to .ahk, right click it, and pick 'Run Script' and test it.

[appie747]

I thought as much... still haven't found the time to try it out.... when I do I'll post it ASAP!

(we had a short week, only monday, tuesday and wednesday)