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Questions tagged [diacritics]

For questions about letters with diacritical marks, like é and ç; how to type/enter them and how to make sure they're displayed correctly.

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Issues with win key and right alt key after Windows Update (Polish diacritical signs not working)

I've got a problem that occured to me out of nowhere. Today in the morning, as I logged in to my computer at work I cannot input Polish diacritical signs. For example rAlt + A should give Ą but instead it gives no character. On the other hand : rAlt…
Piotr Truszkowski
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Is it possible to enter macron (ā) and caron (ǎ) diacritics with USA international keyboard?

I know how it is possible to enter acute (á), grave (à), circumflex (â), and tilde (ã) diacritics with US international keyboard. You just enter one of the symbols ('`^~) and then a vowel. Is it possible to enter macron (ā) and caron (ǎ) also some…
Dims
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Windows 7: Italian Keyboard: Typing capitalized accented vowels

I am running Windows 7 on a computer with an Italian keyboard. Such a keyboard has keys for producing the lowercase accented grave characters à, è, ì, ò, ù, and it is also possible to produce the lowercase accented acute character é by pressing…
John Sonderson
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Incremental search for un/accented characters

Does emacs have an incremental search mode, where searching for a character will search for itself and for any other versions of the character with accent marks, similar to how Google Chrome (at least v27) will do when searching in a…
user38983
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How to fix diacritic issue on command prompt?

Simplified issue: I have a file called Bíblia sagrada.exe (note the í) on C:\ of my computer. When I open a command prompt on C:\ and execute dir /b /on B*.*, it will return: Bíblia sagrada.exe i.e., no issues with diacritic symbols. But when I do…
kokbira
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How can I generate combining characters on windows?

A while ago I asked this question on SO where I found out about combining characters and how for alt+777 you get ○ on most editors and ̉ on skype, which can be combined with a previous character and eventually generate a word like this:…
Adelin
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How to display text in UTF8 from mysql /phpmyadmin?

I have a database with multiple tables. The database and table and every row of table is set to utf8_romanian_ci. Every name which I import that contains diacritics will not be displayed correctly. For example: If i introduce MaÂehx in table I have…
Utf8
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How do I disable automatic diacritics?

I have been given a new work computer, and it exhibits some additional functionality that is slowly becoming a nuisance. The computer supports automatic diacritics; for example, if I type an apostrophe, nothing will display on the screen. Instead,…
Gnemlock
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Pressing an accent key (´ / ˇ) adds the character twice in most programs

This might seem as duplicate of Pressing key with accent character makes it enter twice but it is not: About three days ago, the issue started - I am using Slovak (Slovakia) keyboard, and the key for adding accents/diacritics (just left from…
sh code
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Cannot write diacritics

I'm not sure what I did to break this functionality, as I haven't installed or removed any software recently, nor have I messed with registry, sensitive files nor settings. I cannot write any diacritics, nor characters accented with diacritics such…
Steen Schütt
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word won't put diacritics before other character is typed

I've got a problem with one of the computers I use (running Win7 Pro x64 with Office 2007). Word won't let me type any diacritics (like AltGr+a = ą, AltGr+e = ę, etc) before any other character is typed. Surprisingly typing any other combination of…
burtek
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How to preserve diacritics when cross-mounting drives to Windows7 and Linux

A friend backed up an in accessible Windows 7 partition to a big (close to 1TB) external USB drive using KNOPIX. Unfortunately the umlauts and accents in the file names of his extensive music collection now appear garbled (UTF8 vs ISO xxx, I guess)…
lexu
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Unicode sequence for custom character with dot underneath

Unicode has code points for certain Roman characters with a dot underneath, for instance U+1E04 — "Latin Capital Letter B With Dot Below" but code points don't exist for all letters. How can I put a dot below an arbitrary (Roman) character? I know…
ErikR
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Pressing CAPSLOCK and a number in Hebrew mode no longer inserts nikkud

I used to be able to insert diacritics (nikkud) in Hebrew by entering Hebrew language mode, pressing caps lock, and then the shift key and any number (depending on what diacritic I wanted). For some reason, at some point this stopped working. Does…
Sarra
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How to type a (double) quote in Slack for Windows

In most (if not all) Windows apps if I type a (double) quote it does not immediately appear and waits for the next character. If a vowel, it will turn into a diacritic like ü or é, if a space (or actually anything that cannot use such a 'modifier')…
Jan Doggen
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