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>User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.0.0.040405
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:54:21 -0400
>Subject: Re: #7636 Floating Accented Vowel Utility for XP?
>From: Jack Burston <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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Joseph,

Presumably you are only concerted with western European alphabetic
languages.  If so, a good solution is to use the United States International
keyboard in conjunction with the Visual Keyboard, which is a free download
from Microsoft.  The US International keyboard retains the QWERTY key
assignments but uses some of the punctuation keys to insert accented
characters. The US International keyboard can be used on its own, but if you
combine it with the Visual Keyboard you get a pop-up virtual keyboard mapped
to the US International keyboard. Just click on the characters you want and
they are inserted into your text. Unfortunately, not all programs accept
character input from the Visual keyboard.  You'll need to try it out to find
out.  Jack

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Jack Burston, Ph.D.
Director
Foreign Language Technology Center
College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623-5604