Thanks for information, Donn. I will try to make some time sometime and look into that, although this computer has the seventh Window, not one with a View.
Obviously, there is more than one way to skin a platano. And platano needs an accent mark ' over the first a.
Plantains anyone?
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Re: Plantains anyone?
ñáéíóú Well I got these, but the upside down exclamation point and the upside down question mark don't work that simply. ¡ is still {alt0161} and the upside down ? is still lost to me. plátano. Lo encontré. ¡Ay caramba! Yo quiero Taco Bell.
Gracias Donn.
¿¡ Y tienes razón. Solo funciona con la tecla 'alt' derecha. And apparently the apostrophe key also works differently. It can be used before typing the letter you want to use it over and to get just an apostrophe, you have to type a space after hitting ' . ñ That kind of thing works with the ~ also to put it over the n only apparently.
Gracias Donn.
¿¡ Y tienes razón. Solo funciona con la tecla 'alt' derecha. And apparently the apostrophe key also works differently. It can be used before typing the letter you want to use it over and to get just an apostrophe, you have to type a space after hitting ' . ñ That kind of thing works with the ~ also to put it over the n only apparently.
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Re: Plantains anyone?
Que bueno. Eu não sabia do á em plátano - plátano existe in Portugues mas de sentido differente - Plane Tree, as in London Plane or more specifically a parent of that tree, crossed with sycamore. You'd have to be very hungry to try to eat any part of it. Cooking plantain is banana-da-terra.
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Re: Plantains anyone?
Planatus acerifolia off the top of my head. American(?) sycamore. It might be that I have seen platano translated as planetree form Spanish, That's another of those YMMV cases. I'm on the laptop which has not developed enough character to do the accent on the a in platano.
But how did you get the ã? I tried to do it out of curiousity, but it didn't work for me. (I copied and pasted that) I don't think I have any need for it as I don't write Portuguese, but I'm curious.
But how did you get the ã? I tried to do it out of curiousity, but it didn't work for me. (I copied and pasted that) I don't think I have any need for it as I don't write Portuguese, but I'm curious.
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Re: Plantains anyone?
I use an Apple Macintosh, where the standard keyboard configuration is already fairly international. I mentioned before, on this configuration, the ˜ works somewhat like I think you're saying ´ works on yours - the next character you type gets the accent. Here it's <option>n and <option>e, respectively.alfredr wrote:But how did you get the ã?
And there's «, », 1º, 1ª, and then there's a sort of character library application you can fire up if you want to čeština.
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Re: Plantains anyone?
Ahh. Apples and crawfish, then.