How do you make the following symbols on the keyboard?

Question

two examples are like how do you make the little slash above the 'e' in the word cafe or if you are typing in french. How do you get those two dots over some letters (idk what language) or the funny thing under the 'c', again in french. How do you get the Euro symbol (you know, the funny looking 'E' type thingy).

do you have to have a special keyboard or something? i heard something about holding down Ctrl and typing in certain numbers...?

Answer 1

Euro is ctrl alt + 4 [€] and you get the others by holding ALT and typing in four digit numbers that I can't remember exactly

Answer 2

This is a short list of characters enterable in just about any Windows word processor, text editor, browser or email client.  To get these characters,

1. Make sure your keyboard is in NumLock mode.

2. Hold down the ALT key and enter the number on the numeric keypad.  (Note that many laptops have a blue FN key that changes a set of keys, also with blue numbers on them, into a numeric keypad.)

Character   ALT sequence

Ç   128

ü   129

é   130

â   131

ä   132

à   133

Ã¥   134

ç   135

ê   136

ë   137

è   138

ï   139

î   140

ì   141

Ä   142

Å   143

É   144

æ   145

Æ   146

ô   147

ö   148

ò   149

û   150

ù   151

ÿ   152

Ö   153

Ü   154

á     160

í     161

ó     162

ú     163

ñ   164

Ñ   165

¿   168

¡   173

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

To get them letters you need to use 'Alt-Codes'.

( Make sure number-lock is on )

For example, hold down the alt key and press 145 on your numberpad to the right of your keyboard, this should come up æ.

Bellow is a link to a website with a large table full of alt codes.

Nath

Answer 4

Go to Start - Run and type in "charmap"

From here you can explore the other characters in a given font on your machine and at the bottom it gives you a "code" to press to get those.

To get é you hold ALT and press 0233 and then release ALT.