Learning How to Make Special Characters on Keyboard Please?

Question

Greetings,

In regards to WikiTree I.D.: Spencer-2105, Robert Spencer, 1.º Barão Spencer de Wormleighton KG.

Can someone please tell me how I type the special characters on keyboard?  (see highlighted above)

Thank you kindly.

Merry Christmas!

It's fine, how the manager has it now, but, was just curious for future editing. 

Answer 1

It depends a bit on what computer and software you are using. For example, on an iPad with Safari,  you simply hold the key and the available options appear. For example, if you tap and hold the a key, you get ã, å, ā, à, á, â, ä, and æ. If the letter has no other options, nothing additional appears. For capital letter options press the shift key first.

You can also cut and paste from a word processor. How you insert the characters with diacritical marks depends on your word processor.

You can also google this, find the specifics for your system.

Comments

I suspect this (in some version) works on all Apple systems, unless you have something really old.

Answer 2

These codes work on my keyboard. You hold down the Alt key while you type the numeric value on the number pad. I hope this helps.

https://tools.oratory.com/altcodes.html

Answer 3

You can learn the special alt codes and keyboard shortcuts.  But by far the easiest way is to google "special keyboard characters" find a page with all of them, then just copy-paste the one you are looking for.

• https://www.key-shortcut.com/en/windows/windows-special-characters/ 
• http://www.mvdmoosdijk.nl/Misc/Altcodes/Alt-codes_for_characters.htm
• https://www.alt-codes.net/
• https://usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/accents-alt-codes.php
• http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html

Answer 4

In Windows there is a small program - should be called "Character map" or something similar in English. There you have most of the letters that are strange for English reading eyes :)

Answer 5

Also see the Quick Tip on Special Characters - "My keyboard doesn't have an O with a line through it" thread.

Answer 6

I sometimes need French so have added a French keyboard and just switch to that when I need it.  I think that is the easiest way if you are only using one additional language, but it might not work so well if you are using a variety of languages, as you have to remember to change the keyboard when you want to go back to English.