Litreacha Cearr

seaghdhas

Cad is feidir liom a deanamh nuair a mbionn litir, ce a raibh deanta le fada, neamh-leirithe. Cad is bri liom is nuair a scriobhann duine a-fada, leirim e mar caractair eile, cosuil le Ruiseach. Bfheidir go bhfuill rud eigin san options do, ach bfheidir go bfhuill rud eigin. Agus, bhfeidir nach cabhraionn e me go usaideann me riomhairi piobli.

rien_du_tout

Ar mhaith leat an slí chun fada a dheaneamh? Cuir síos an butún "Alt Gr" agus an litreach a mhaith leat an fada a curtha os cionn ag an am chéanna.

Hold the "alt gr" button and press the ltter you want to put the fada over. Sorry about the bad irish but I try!

Seán

Dun

Internet Explorer:

View -> Encoding -> Western European (Windows)

Netscape 4 (níl ach Netscape 4 agam):

View -> Character Set -> Western (ISO-8859-1)

Ceapaim go bhfuil tu ag caint faoin rud seo.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

mm yeah i think she's talking about the character set.. like the é isn't showin up at all, and it's coming up as some freaky character..

Bard

Nuair nach bhfuil sé rómh éasca le daoine eile do cúpla focail a tuigint, deir iad i mBéarla freisin led'thoil.

...mar deireann sé s'na ríalanna.

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When it's not too easy for others to understand your few words, please say them in English also.

...as suggested in the charter/rules.

Gael

Scríobh rien_de_tout:

butún

An-mhaith a chara! Iarracht mhaith!:D

"Cnaipe" an ghaeilge atá ar "button" a dhuine.;)

seaghdhas

mm yeah i think she's talking about the character set.. like the é isn't showin up at all, and it's coming up as some freaky character..

Sin é. Tá sé níos mó chun rudaí a léabh ná a phost. Ní raibh ciail ar rud eigin. Obraíonn AltGr, ach obraíonn Ctrl+Alt freisin.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

shouldn't that be "phostáil"?

Gael

No, it should be "rudaí a sheoladh"

zynaps

Tá sé níos éasca agus úsáideach é seo a rá as béarla

Depending on the character set and encoding used to write and or view (generally view) the writing, it'll often come out as upside down exclamation marks instead of í's and so forth...

Unfortunately there isn't much you can do to assure how it'll appear on someone else's screen, unless you're writing a webpage, in which case I think you can force a certain encoding.

It's poxy, because sometimes entering your name in online forms and stuff (if it has fadas and stuff in it) you'll get gobbldegook like Ois$efn or Ois»n or just Oisn ... etc. instead of Oisín
My sister lived in Japan or a while, and when we used to email her stuff, anything with fadas in it would come out as japanese kanji I think.
And when I applied for a passport years ago, the envelope from the government I got back had my name with messed up characters instead of vowels, because they'd tried to put fadas in it, and it printed out using the printer's own character set which ... obviously didn't have fada letters in the same places

If it's just that the pc you're on won't let you input fada chars with ctrl-alt-vowel or alt gr/etc, you should be able to use numpad chars - hold alt and type the ascii code on the keypad.

130 - é
160 - á
161 - í
162 - ó
163 - ú
...
178 - ▓ :P

zynaps
(sorry for being overly verbose)