Keyboard for Finnish vowels

[elizestrada]

How do you guys type

Å, Ä, Ö

into your computers? Do you have a different keyboard than English speakers? Or do you use ASCII or paste or a shortcut or something else?

[Hank W.]

If you use mega$haft windoze, you can fix it up to "speak Finnish". then again where you get /// we get ööö so all your buttons are funny. it will teach you humility to try write for a week on a French keyboard tho... after that the Finnish one will seem like it was logical

[sinikala]

How do you guys type

Å, Ä, Ö

into your computers? Do you have a different keyboard than English speakers? Or do you use ASCII or paste or a shortcut or something else?

yes it's a wider keyboard...

the Å is to the right of the P
the Ö & Ä are to the right of the L

if your keyboard has a key with a ".." usually used for languages with umlauts, try hitting this ".." and then "o" to produce ö.

[Oombongo]

You can also covert your keyboard to any language (Except language with charactersets) using control panel->Regional and Language options-> Language->Settings.

For Chinese, Jap, Korean, Arabic....you need to install the support.

[trentti]

I do it the slow and labourious way

alt + 132 = ä
alt + 148 = ö

I avoid using them in capitals and don't use ruotsalainen oo

[enk]

I do it the slow and labourious way

alt + 132 = ä
alt + 148 = ö

or ALT+0228 (ä) and ALT+0246 (ö).

-enk

[elizestrada]

Kiitos!

[Ravvy]

I do it the slow and labourious way

alt + 132 = ä
alt + 148 = ö

or ALT+0228 (ä) and ALT+0246 (ö).

-enk

I cannot pass the IQ test . I cannot get an "a or an "o with either of those ALT options shown above. What am I doing wrong?

[sinikala]

What am I doing wrong?

You are probably typing in the numbers on the main part of the keyboard.

Press alt, then type numbers in on the numerical keypad.

[trentti]

I cannot pass the IQ test . I cannot get an "a or an "o with either of those ALT options shown above. What am I doing wrong?

As sinikala said, use the numerical keypad. Also, you need to keep the 'alt' key depressed when you use the numpad. (tell it that it's ugly bad joke)

[Jazqas]

Hiya

Yep, on your pc thats the way to do it... hold alt, type the numbers and then let go. You can sit there for a while practicing (i used to have a post-it with the numbers for both capital and lowercase) or buy a finnish keyboard.

Or do it my way and press option-u then whichever a or o will come out ä ö. Only works on a mac tho..

There is a tricky way to change your keymap somehow... there are other keys that you never use.. ie {} (apparently the finns hardly ever use @).

Jazqas.

[Richard]

apparently the finns hardly ever use @

Those that don't email maybe.

[sammy]

apparently the finns hardly ever use @

Those that don't email maybe.

Some that do may still be cautious of spamming and always write their email address without the @-sign, for example fred.astaire(at)step.org

To avoid using @ in hand-written notes and letters is pushing it too far, though

[Richard]

apparently the finns hardly ever use @

Those that don't email maybe.

Some that do may still be cautious of spamming and always write their email address without the @-sign, for example fred.astaire(at)step.org

To avoid using @ in hand-written notes and letters is pushing it too far, though

You need to use it when sending an email though.

[Jazqas]

Ok, I was more referring to the trouble that people have in working out the alt gr thing...

I know it has stopped some people from emailing from a finnish computer...

Jazqas