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From: Pops <>
Subject: Re: GEN-NORDIC-D Digest V00 #195
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:30:49 -0700


On 27 Jun 2000 11:46:38 -0700, wrote:


Using Danish as my example, Win95/98 allows you to switch between
languages using shift-control as a language change toggle. When typing
in English and you wish to type a Danish special character, you can
toggle to Danish, then type the character, and toggle back to English.
Easy. Fast. You can touch type this way, even with your smaller
notebook keyboard setup with several languages.
To setup your computer:

1.go to Start
2.go to Settings
3.go to Control Panel
4.go to Keyboard
5.go to Language
6.go to Add
7.select the language(s) you want
8.select OK and you are done

Now you should have a blue square in your tray. This blue square says
En for English or Da for Danish, etc. All you have to do when you want
Danish characters is to toggle to "Da" with shift-control and type
semicolon for æ, quote for ø, and [ for å. To make them caps, use
shift just like in English. Since there will be other keys changes,
you may wish to toggle back to English immediately after typing the
Danish special characters. Remember the toggle is done very quickly. A
held shift-control is used in highlighting text. So you must toggle
quickly in order to get shift-control to toggle language changes
instead of highlighting.

By the way, the computer should be setup with:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Don't ask why or how, but it seems important.

Jim

>Could anyone please help me figure out how to get my computer to read the Scandinavian alphabets correctly? Letters I read through AOL have been converted so that Strømstad looks like Strømstad. I've tried all the Western European (Windows), Western European (ISO) and Baltic ISO encoding choices, but nothing seems to work.
>
>I've included the header from today's digest, which says it was converted from 8-bit to "quoted printable." Could that be it?
>
>Sorry to bother you all with this, but I figured that maybe I'm not the only one fighting it. Thanks in advance.

...

>Regards,
>Craig Miller
>

Pops

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