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[lethargic_man]

Following the suggestion of a cow-orker, I have levered the I and O keys off my keyboard and replaced them in the wrong order; also the V and B keys.

The result is quite interesting: When I'm looking away from the keyboard, of course, I can type fine; but when I look at the keys to type (as distinct from touch typing whilst looking at the keys), no matter how well I know where the keys should live, I keep either typing the wrong ones, or at best stopping myself halfway to correcting myself.

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[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Do you know how to write German umlauts and French acents? I often had to get them out of my open office program by inserting them as symbols.

The editor I normally use, Emacs, gives you a choice of way to enter them, and I can use that editor as an alternate editor for my mail program.

If typing in a web form, etc, you can type an accented character by typing CTRL-SHIFT-u + <Unicode hex character code> in Linux, or ALT-0+ <Windows-1252 decimal character code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252)> in Windows.

My email system does not seem to accept them anyway.

It should. Check if your email system allows a setting for character set. ISO-8859-1 (or Latin-1) or Unicode or UTF-8 or Windows-1252 should all handle accented characters; if it's set to ASCII or 7-bit, it will not.

My printer cannot print them. It comes out as squares. I have the problem when I print out my CV.

Your printer driver should be able to handle them. If not, try pasting text into Wordpad or Notepad and printing from there. If the problem is only with OpenOffice, raise the problem in the appropriate OpenOffice feedback forum.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Thanks I will look into it.