Esperanto Diacritical Characters in Different Fonts

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Esperanto Diacritical Characters in Different Fonts

Written by Rebecca Scudder (97,145 pts ) in Language Learning Media Gallery
Last Edited on Oct 7, 2009
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If you are interested in typing Esperanto on your computer, you will not find all of the characters needed on your keyboard. This document contains the special diacritical characters used in writing Esperanto in a number of common fonts. If you keep this document open in your taskbar, you can cut and paste needed characters into your document.

After you have typed in Esperanto characters using these characters, and you are sure you have spelled them correctly, you can run your spell checker and add the words to your custom dictionary. If you then type the word without the special characters, your spell checker will stop and offer you choices to correct the spelling. One of the choices should be the word you added to the dictionary with the special characters, and you can tell the spell checker to change the word you typed to the correct word. Add additional Esperanto words to your spell checker's custom dictionary- but be sure you have spelled them correctly before you add them! After a while, you will have built yourself an Esperanto spell checker that adds the diacritical marks where needed, and will check your Esperanto writing without flagging every word as incorrect.

The letters with diacritical marks are ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ. The fonts in this document are Ariel, Calibri, Constantia, Courier New, Lucida Sans Unicode, Tahoma, Times New Roman and Verdana.

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Mar 25, 2010 12:48 AM
Esperanto diacritical marks
Hi Robin Lee,
I have not found any Control Alt combinations which produce Esperanto diacritical marks. However, I have found some other alternatives, and put up a blog post on my Bright Hub Hubfolio which tells you all the options I found, and the sources.

If you are not using a laptop, or have access to an ultralarge one which has a numeric pad on the right, your best option is probably to use the Alt codes, which should work in any Windows OS. The link to the post is here:
http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/rebecca-scudder/blog/archive/2010/03/25/esperanto-diacritical-marks.aspx
Mar 22, 2010 1:13 AM
Robin Lee
Typing diacritical marks
ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ.

How do I type these letters using Control Alt which I'm already used to ?

DANKON ( Thank you in Esperanto )
Oct 12, 2009 9:21 AM
Daniel
Esperanto Fonts on Mac OS X
Great post. For any of your readers on a mac, there is a keyboard mapping for Esperanto letters here: http://www.options4.com/options/software/keyboards.html

 
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