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>Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:46:34 -0700
>From: Peter Lafford <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: Answer to #5000 keyboard settings     (!)
>To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]>

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In Windows98, Keyboard settings are set in the Keyboard Control Panel.  To
get there, select:
1. START/Settings/Control Panel
2. Double-click on  "Keyboard"
3. Select "Language" tab.  On the left will be listed the installed
"Languages" (perhaps only "En-English (United States)"), and on the right,
the "Layout" for that language. The one you are referring to (with dead
keys) is "United States-International"  To assign that, 
4. Double-click on the "English (United States)" Language to show the
"Properties" for that language. 
5. In the next dialog box ("Language Properties"), select "United
States-International" as the Keyboard Layout.  
6. Click OK, and it will install the "KBDUSX.KBD" keyboard file in the
C:\windows\system directory.  If it doesn't have that layout already
installed, it will search for the Windows installation CD, disks, or files,
or will prompt you to help locate them.  If you don't have them handy,
simply locate that KBDUSX.KBD file on another machine, and put it manually
in the C:\windows\system directory, and it will find the KBDUSX.KBD file the
next time you select "United States-International" as the Layout.

With the US-International Keyboard layout, in any standard Windows
application, type the accenting character first (' for acute or cedilla, `
for grave, ~ for tilde over the "enye", ^ for circumflex, : for umlaut) and
nothing will appear until you type the next character.  If that next
character CAN take that accent, it will be accented.  If it cannot, the
apostrophe or other character will appear, followed by that second
character.  Remeber that when you really want the quotation mark or
apostrophe before a vowel (which it would normally make into an accented
vowel), press the SPACE BAR after the quotation mark, etc. and that
character will appear without being converted to an accent on the next
character.  

The Spanish opening question mark is Ctrl-Alt-/, and the Spanish opening
exclamation point is Ctrl-Alt-1 (the keys which produce those two closing
marks shen shifted).

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