| |
Accents on letters are available on both PC and Mac, except for
a few that don’t commonly occur in languages other than Welsh.
Notably absent is w with a circumflex, which is often shown as w^,
and y with a circumflex, y^.
All accents can be denoted in emails and on the internet by using
the letter with a plus, slash, backslash or percent symbol. These
are not so commonly used now that embedded characters are more widely
supported by browsers, so may not be understood by everyone.
| â (circumflex) |
a+ |
| à (grave) |
a\ |
| á (acute) |
a/ |
| ä (umlaut) |
a% |
PC accents
Here’s a table of all the accents currently available for PCs.
To access them, hold down your alt-key, and enter the number given.
| â + |
131 |
 + |
182 |
| à \ |
133 |
À \ |
183 |
| á / |
160 |
Á / |
181 |
| ä % |
132 |
Ä % |
142 |
| |
|
|
|
| ê |
136 |
Ê |
210 |
| è |
138 |
È |
212 |
| é |
130 |
É |
144 |
| ë |
137 |
Ë |
211 |
| |
|
|
|
| î |
140 |
Î |
215 |
| ì |
141 |
Ì |
222 |
| í |
161 |
Í |
214 |
| ï |
139 |
Ï |
216 |
| |
|
|
|
| ô |
147 |
Ô |
226 |
| ò |
149 |
Ò |
227 |
| ó |
162 |
Ó |
224 |
| ö |
148 |
Ö |
153 |
| |
|
|
|
| û |
150 |
Û |
234 |
| ù |
151 |
- |
|
| ú |
163 |
Ú |
233 |
| ü |
129 |
Ü |
154 |
| |
|
|
|
| ÿ |
152 |
- |
|
| ý |
236 |
Ý |
237 |
Mac accents
Accents are available under almost any Mac keyboard configuration,
even if they are not printed on the keyboard itself, for example
an AZERTY keyboard shows the accent key positions on the keyboard,
but some QWERTY keyboards do not. Such accent keys are, in fact,
known as ‘dead keys’ because they do not produce any response
until a second key (the character to be accented) is pressed, at
which time, the correct accented character is displayed.
To get these accented letters, hold the alt-key down and press
the accent key to ‘activate’ the accent function, then
press the letter requiring the accent as a normal character (in
other words, without the alt-key) - if it is required to place the
accent on a capital letter, simply use the shift key when pressing
the required letter.
| key |
accent |
can be followed by |
| Alt-e |
acute á |
e, u, i, o, a |
| Alt-u |
umlaut ä |
e, u, i, o, a, y |
| Alt-i |
circumflex, â |
e, u, i, o, a |
| Alt-` (*) |
grave à |
e, u, i, o, a |
* the ` key is to the left of the Z key
You can try these accents out in any application on a Mac, or you
can use them with the Key Caps accessory, found under the Apple
menu.
Thanks to David Neale for the information on Mac accents.
get the text document
[back]
|
|
