Àcçêntúàte the Põsítîve

I was mercilessly teased yesterday for using the character map instead of setting my computer up properly. Mutter mutter… this constant drive for self-improvement is exhausting. I already have portuguese language input but when I had a closer look, d’oh! It still had a UK Qwerty keyboard linked to it.

I have a mousemat that tells me how to use the number pad and the alt key (basically, what Rafa is talking about here) but it’s a faff, so I have been using character map instead, plus a lot of autocorrect.

Practice Portuguese and Liz Sharma – two formidable knowers of things… Hm, did I just treat Rui and Joel as one person? Three. Three knowers of things – recommend using a US International keyboard. I found my keyboard didn’t work quite the same way as described though, so just for an experiment, I decided to follow their instructions but install a portuguese keyboard. Here’s how you make accents using that:

What is it?	How do you get it?
ãõ	~ followed by a or o
ÃÕ	(caps lock) ~ followed by a or o
ÂÊÎÔÛ	(SHIFT)~ followed by A,E,I,O,U
âêîôû	(caps lock)(SHIFT)~ followed by A,E,I,O,U
áéíóé	] followed by A,E,I,O,U
ÁÉÍÓÚ	(caps lock) ] followed by A,E,I,O,U
àèìòù	(SHIFT) ] followed by A,E,I,O,U
ÀÈÌÒÙ	(caps lock)(SHIFT) ] followed by A,E,I,O,U
ç	Just the ; key – easy!
1º, 2ª	Just the ‘ key ((SHIFT) for feminine)

The trouble with this is that it boogyrs up all the punctuation keys tooç see what I mean_ )that was supposed to be a question mark!= And those were supposed to be brackets! Hm, maybe that US International keyboard isnºt such a bad idea… To get question marks and the other things you might want, you need to follow this map. I’m going to try it for a few days and see how I get on.