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Subject: Re: TMG-L: Scandinavian diacriticals - how? or If?
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:31:05 +0100

Karla Huebner <>, Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:58:49
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>Agreed that for individual bits (names, place names) it's best to do the
>diacritical right at the start. However, for long chunks of text quoted
>from a book--I did this last summer when I visited the NYPL and was just
>typing in Norwegian text to deal with later--it works perfectly well to
>type things like o/ and a* and later use search-and-replace to convert them
>in one move. It's a lot faster, anyway.

As I wrote previously - if you have the chance to get a NO or DK
keyboard, and choose Norwegian or Danish keyboard in the settings in
Windows, you'll be able to type the letters right in. Those keyboards
work for English without any trouble (only you'll have to press the
right hand Alt key to reach some third functions on some keys) - all
letters are where you are used to it; some punctuation is placed
differently.

--
Jan

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