In the HELP section of Entourage it says if you're not getting the
symbols you want in a certain language, to try other fonts!
Well........pretty difficult and time consuming searching 100+ fonts
for one that will provide the MOST basic of accent use in the French
language - for the letter "a" when used as a preposition meaning "to."
I must use it hundreds of times a day and can NOT get the accent symbol
for this word in 20+ fonts I've tried. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
à is in virtually all the fonts. Especially the default ones used for
plain text e-mails.
The point raised on this Help note is that some more exotic characters
require extensive fonts embedding multiple alphabets (Russian, Greek,
Japanese, Chinese.....). That's not for your case.
You do NOT want to use a Symbol for à. With a US QWERTY keyboard, there
are simple shortcuts for accented letters.
Try:
Option-` a to get à
the grave accent can be optained with Option-`, then you type the
letter you want to see it on.
Acute: Option-e letter
Circumflex: Option-i letter
double-points (tréma): Option-u letter
You can even get them on capital letters by using Option-` shift-a for
instance (for À)
The Keyboard viewer will help you visualize all the shortcuts you need
for a bunch more. Just press the option key to see the modifying effect.
Corentin
