[oclug] (OT) back to DOS

[Tom Trottier]

You could always choose the Canadian French keyboard layout.

Or see http://www.wordinfo.com/how_to/accww7.htm using the US key 
layout. Basically, press the accent + ctrl key and release before 
pressing the base letter.

tOM

On Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 13:36, Jon Earle 
<oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
wrote re "Re: [oclug] (OT) back to DOS" saying:

...
> At work, I too have XP and Office 97 installed (I needed something
> that worked since OOo wasn't cutting the mustard for me).  I don't
> see this issue you describe.  Further, I usually do the Alt-130 thing
> for the french accented 'e' 'cause its faster than hunting through
> the special character tables, but those characters were there last
> time I checked. Of course, it may have been the Windows character map
> I consulted... 

------- Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur -----------------
   ,__@	Tom A. Trottier +1 613 860-6633 fax:231-6115
 _-\_<,	758 Albert St.,Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8	
(*)/'(*)	ICQ:57647974 N45.412 W75.714
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Laws are the spider's webs which, 
if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, 
but large things break through and escape.
	--Solon, statesman (c.638-c558 BCE)