PC keyboard & characters öäå ÖÄÅ

[uspjj Registered Find all posts View Profile Close uspjj]

I noticed that many have problems writing Scandinavian charachers. You can set up your Windows 2K and other versions of Microsoft windows to switch between Finnish and US keyboards as follows:
1. Add Finnish keyboard layout:
start --> settings --> regional settings --> input locales -->add --> input locale FINNISH --> keyboard layout Finnish.

check 'Enable indicator on taskbar

2.
This will enable you to switch between US and Finnish keyboard by changing 'EN" to 'FI' on the taskbar
the åöä ÅÖÄ characters are located as follows:

qwertyuiopå
asdfghjklöä

QWERTYUIOPÅ
ASDFGHJKLÖÄ

Hope it helps.
/peter

[June Pelo Senior Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close June Pelo]

Typing Scandinavian characters on an English language keyboard

Here is an easy way to type Scandinavian and foreign characters (umlauts) on a standard English keyboard:

Hold down Alt key and type the numbers using the the numeric keyboard (do not use the numbers at top of the keyboard). Be sure the Num Lock light is on. Here are some examples:

Alt 134 å
Alt 143 Å
Alt 132 ä
Alt 142 Ä
Alt 148 ö
Alt 153 Ö
Alt 160 á
Alt 133 à
Alt 137 ë
Alt 138 è
Alt 130 é
Alt 144 É
Alt 162 ó
Alt 129 ü
Alt 154 Ü
Alt 145 æ
Alt 146 Æ

June

[Gunnar Damström Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Gunnar Damström]

Even simpler- if you acquire a Microsoft Smart keyboard, you can togle between a Scandinavian keyboard and an American keyboard just by hitting Alt-Shift.
Gunnar

[Hasse Admin Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Hasse]

On the Mac

If you are fortunate enough to use a Mac then you may enable both US and Finnish/Swedish keyboards at the same time and flip/flop between the definitions simply by pressing alt+command+space bar.

[Mark V. Hillman Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Mark V. Hillman]

Keyboard

Peter, June and Gunnar,

Thanks for the keybord tips! ååää!!

I now can change my MS keyboard any way I want. I now, however, have less excuses for misspelling my Swedish and Finnish words....

[Cooper Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Cooper]

Thanks for the hint!

Dear Friends,

I also have troubles when I use different languages.

You gave me another piece of valuable advice.

Thanks!

[SusanR Registered Find all posts View Profile Close SusanR]

Thank you for the tips, now I can make my geneology site look so much better with the correct spellings.

Susan