Spanish Cahracters

[gooner]

Hi Guys

I am currently trying to design a web based language course for people moving from the UK to Spain. The user will need to type in translations in Spanish into a form. This is not done online. My problem is how can they type in the special Spanish character without loading another keyboard language. I have seen one where it is set so that if the person holds down ctrl+alt+the character it automatically changes it to the Spanish version, i.e. ctrl+alt+n returns Ñ

Any thought of how this can be achieved. I am planning to distribute the course on a CD. I will send a free copy to the person who solves the problem.

[Ned Seagoon]

Hi Terry

If the form is in an HTML document, I think the easiest way would be to write some javascript to do the job. If it is a word document, perhaps a macro could be employed.

What sort of form are we talking about? BF

[uripyores]

The only spanish character I can think of is Manuel in 'fawlty towers'...........sorry, I couldn't resist it. good luck. :wave:

[gooner]

I will try to ignore the Fawlty Towers joke - I like it really.

Most pages would have either one word or a sentence in English that they then trpe into a blank box, click on a button to reveal the correct answer , then click a button to move to the next screen,.

[Steven.Bentley]

I guess that supplying a list of the codes to type in with ALT eg ALT-0233 for é would be simple, maybe as a PDF for them to print out.

I'd be wary of anything that was specific to your own course, you'll want your learners to be able to use the skills they have picked up elsewhere.

[degsy]

I have seen one where it is set so that if the person holds down ctrl+alt+the character it automatically changes it to the Spanish version, i.e. ctrl+alt+n returns Ñ



Where did you see it?

You can use ASCII Codes to insert/use special characters.
You could then use Javascript to insert that character.

[gooner]

Sounds a bit complicated. Would Javascript be able to give the user shortcuts on their keyboard, if so any idea how I could find out how?

[michpowell]

Here are the most used characters in Spanish, plus a couple extras. For Macintosh they are different (and easier to memorize).

Á= alt + 0193
É= alt + 0201
Í= alt + 0205
Ó= alt + 0211
Ú= alt + 0218
Ñ= alt + 0209
á= alt + 0225
é= alt + 0233
í= alt + 0237
ó= alt + 0243
ú= alt + 0250
ñ= alt + 0241
¡= alt + 0161 (opening exclamation mark)
¿= alt + 0191 (opening question mark)
™= alt + 0153
©= alt + 0169
®= alt + 0174
•= alt + 0149 (bullet)

[gooner]

Thanks that is useful to know. Yo can get á,í,ó by using the ctrl+alt plus the letter keys.

I have downloaded a package called Lexibar from
www.lexicool.com which does the job really easily. It gives you a small toolbar and you can drag and drop the characters.

[degsy]

can get á,í,ó by using the ctrl+alt plus the letter keys
You can also use the Alt Gr key.