... the first option is to get a European keyboard. They are fabulous little things, they have all the keys that US keyboards do, and they allow things like ö, ä, å, £, and to be typed. Awesome. The only downside is that the enter key and the left shift key are awkwardly shaped and it'll take about two hours to get used it it. Also, all the little punctuation keys like colons and asterisks are in different places. Well, I call it a European keyboard but they don't have the keys for weird French characters, nothing from those weird Hungarians, and forget about Russian. And you still have to do some wizardry to type Motley Crüe and Queensrÿche properly. I vote there needs to be a special "umlaut shift key" that puts umlauts on top of any other letter pressed at the same time. This keyboard I have does have a freestanding ¨ but I have no idea what that's good for because it doesn't combine with any other letters.
Another option for typing ö is to type 1 4 8 on the keypad while holding the alt key down. There are different combinations to get different letters, but that's how you get the ö.
The third option is to open Word, go to the Insert option on the top bar, then Symbol. Put all of your commonly used weird not-English symbols into a scratch document. When talking to or about crazy foreigners with their hip weird alphabets, you can then copy and paste the particular characters into your typing. I used this method for typing Motley Crüe and Queensrÿche.
For extra credit, watch the Nightingale DVD and tell me why Dan says his last name incorrectly and Dag says it right.
For more extra credit, explain to me why Cypresians (thank god they didn't play Crete or I'd have called them Cretins) mosh to Nightingale.
(this public service announcement brought to you by Jim and the Still Amazed And Fucking Confused in Finland foundation)
Another option for typing ö is to type 1 4 8 on the keypad while holding the alt key down. There are different combinations to get different letters, but that's how you get the ö.
The third option is to open Word, go to the Insert option on the top bar, then Symbol. Put all of your commonly used weird not-English symbols into a scratch document. When talking to or about crazy foreigners with their hip weird alphabets, you can then copy and paste the particular characters into your typing. I used this method for typing Motley Crüe and Queensrÿche.
For extra credit, watch the Nightingale DVD and tell me why Dan says his last name incorrectly and Dag says it right.
For more extra credit, explain to me why Cypresians (thank god they didn't play Crete or I'd have called them Cretins) mosh to Nightingale.
(this public service announcement brought to you by Jim and the Still Amazed And Fucking Confused in Finland foundation)
