How to type foreign characters in WordPress

allipen · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 9:46 pm
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How do you type accents, tildes, and the like in a US based WordPress blog? MS Word (i.e., CTRL + apostrophe, accented letter) procedure doesn’t work. Decimals don’t work.

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Thanks,

Anke Altermann
timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 9:49 pm
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I’m wondering if you know that you can set your blog to your own language on this page -> Options -> Language
You can also modify the interface language on the Your Profile page.
timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 9:51 pm
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Re: Microsoft Word
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/
If you are copying and pasting from Word then first click icon 16 in the editor and then click F. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/
ellaella · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 10:08 pm
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/nod to timethief

You can also use the character map in the advanced/extra toolbar insert them. As above, first click 16 but then click J to bring up the custom characters.
timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 10:30 pm
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Good catch elllaella – I’m bookmarking this. :)
ellaella · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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My pleasure! :)
rosclarke · Member · Dec 20, 2007 at 11:50 pm
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And if you know the html codes you can just put them into the html editor.

Find a list here: http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html
timethief · Member · Dec 21, 2007 at 12:25 am
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@rosclarke
Thanks so much for posting that link. I’ll include it in my resource links as soon as I get a chance to blog. :)
allipen · Member · Jan 2, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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Thank you, everybody. html codes, as suggested by rosclarke, work best for me as I switch back and forth between languages and didn’t want to change interface language.
moinansari · Member · Jan 2, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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I saw Urdu language as an option and wanted to type a blog in Urdu. I changed the setttings, but it kept on typing in English. How do I type a blog in Urdu?

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