Re: keyboard problem?

For yr info, companheiro, I had precisely the same problem with a

Fujitsu Siemens S6410. As even Fujitsu Siemens technical support could

not help me with the solution, I decided to find out on my own. Guess

what, Wikipedia gave me the "Caminho das Pedras". Here you got:

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UK-Extended Layout

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and above provide the UK-Extended layout which

behaves exactly the same as the standard UK layout for all the

characters it can generate, but can additionally generate a number of

diacritical marks. Not all combinations work on all keyboards.

acute accents (á) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y are generated by

pressing the AltGr key together with the letter, or AltGr and

apostrophe, followed by the letter (see note below)

grave accents (à) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y are generated by

pressing the backquote (`), then the letter

circumflex (â) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y is generated by AltGr and

6, followed by the letter

diaeresis (ä)on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y is generated by AltGr and

2, then the letter

tilde (ã) on a,n,o,A,N,O is generated by AltGr and #, then the letter

cedilla (ç) under c,C is generated by AltGr and the letter.

These combinations are designed to be easy to remember, as the

circumflex accent is similar to a caret, printed above the 6 key the

diaeresis is similar to the double-quote (") above 2 on the UK keyboard

the tilde (~) is printed on the same key as the #.

UK-Extended does not cater for many languages written with Latin

characters, including Romanian and Turkish, or any using different

character sets such as Greek and Russian.

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Notes:

The AltGr and letter method used for acutes and cedillas will not work

for applications which assign short-cut menu functions to these key

combinations. For acute accents the AltGr and apostrophe method should

be used.

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Hence I configured my computer with United Kingdom as "input language"

and "United Kindom extended" on the keyboard layout. Not a Brastemp, but

works allright, so far. Just a matter of getting used to "Alt Gr" for

most of the typing (as per instructions above), whenever one needs to

punctuate portuguese/brazilian way.

Boa Sorte.

CaptOtero.

André Dias2648345 Wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> I'm using a notebook with Windows Vista Home Premium and UK Keyboard.

> I'd

> like to use the portuguese language as input language, but I didn't

> get.

>

> I put Brazilian portuguese as Input Language, UK keyboard. This

> configuration seems Ok, but I can't use accent. I can't write my name

> for

> example: André (just using copy/paste :-)

>

> Somebody has any idea??

>

> Thanks in advance

> Andre (without accent :-(

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