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It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a Windows keyboard once you’ve got the hang of alt key codes. If you’re using a desktop, your keyboard probably has a number pad off to the right ...
On US International and UK English keyboard layouts, users can type the acute accent letter "é" by typing AltGR+E. This method can also be applied to many other acute accented letters which do not appear on the standard US English keyboard layout. In Microsoft Word, users can press Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then E or ⇧ Shift+E for "é" or "É".
Windows includes an Irish layout which supports acute accents with AltGr for the Irish language and grave accents with the ` dead key for Scottish Gaelic. The other Insular Celtic languages have their own layout. The UK or UK-Extended layout is also frequently used.
On a Macintosh AZERTY keyboard, the acute accent is generated by a combination of the Alt+⇧+&, keys, followed by the vowel. In the Belgian AZERTY layout, a vowel with an acute accent can be generated by a combination of Alt Gr+ù, then the vowel. The acute accent is not available in the French layout on Windows.
On a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system, many special characters that have decimal equivalent codepoint numbers below 256 can be typed in by using the keyboard's Alt+decimal equivalent code numbers keys. For example, the character é (Small e with acute accent, HTML entity code é) can be obtained by pressing Alt+1 3 0.
The acute accent (/ ə ˈ k j uː t /), ́, is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available.
Microsoft Windows users can type an "ó" by pressing Alt+0243 on the numeric pad of the keyboard. [4] "Ó" can be typed by pressing Alt+0211; In Microsoft Word, pressing Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then O will produce the character ó. Pressing Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then ⇧ Shift+O will produce the character Ó. [5]
The Æ character is accessible using AltGr+z on a US-International keyboard. The HTML entities are Æ and æ Windows: Alt+0 198 or Alt+1 46 for uppercase, Alt+0 230 or Alt+1 45 for lowercase. [clarification needed] In the TeX typesetting system, ӕ is produced by \ae. Microsoft Word: Ctrl+⇧ Shift+& followed by A or a. X: Composeae ...