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Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Sun, 06 February 2011, 16:34:42

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!

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: Viett on Sun, 06 February 2011, 17:15:25

There should be quite a few Dvorak-International variants floating around. This one (http://arjenvankol.com/dvorak.php) looks like it was made with Dutch in mind, so you might want to give it a try.

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Tue, 08 February 2011, 12:27:56

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...

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: Zet on Sun, 22 May 2011, 00:15:05

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

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Sun, 22 May 2011, 18:12:01

Quote from: Zet;349719

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...)

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Wed, 25 May 2011, 10:19:33

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....

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: Zet on Thu, 26 May 2011, 07:51:48

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

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Thu, 26 May 2011, 14:34:52

Quote from: Zet;351598

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

Okay, I'll try that, thanks!

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: Zet on Thu, 26 May 2011, 22:06:37

Quote from: appie747;351749

Okay, I'll try that, thanks!

did it work?

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Fri, 27 May 2011, 12:25:33

Quote from: Zet;351911

did it work?

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

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: Zet on Thu, 02 June 2011, 21:15:23

Quote from: Zet;351598

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.

Title: Special characters with Dvorak
Post by: appie747 on Fri, 03 June 2011, 14:42:28

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)