Keyboard question

My new T61 keyboard wouldn't let me type foreign accent. Usually foreign accent can be typed by pressing the ALT key together with some code, for example ALT-139 would give you the "i" with two dots as in "naive" (see I can't make it happen here). Where is the problem? How are your keyboards?

 

You could call me naïve, but I don't see any problem.

All you need to do is press Fn+NmLk and then use the numeric keypad to enter Alt+139.

HTH,
Daniel

 

What/where is the "NmLk" key?

 

Oh, I found the NmLk key. But not sure how to use it. I pressed Fn-NmLk key together once, then press ALT-139 (or other codes), nothing happened.? Also, after you pressed Fn-NmLk, you need to press again to return to the original mode, right? Otherwise, I couldn't type the "O" in "Oh" above.

 

Sorry for being so dumb. I just figured out what you mean by those numeric keys. It's not so convenient, really. Imagine you want to type a German/French article, it may take a week for me to type!

 

Make sure when you press then Fn+NmLk together that it lights up the num lock indicator under your monitor. Should be the closest one next to the wireless indicator.

 

Yes, I saw it, but it's next to the Caps indicator, isn't it? Is the indicator with a "Z" or "N" in 45 degree direction (between hard disk and battery indicators) the wireless indicator?

 

I guess if you want to write an french article for example, you could config your keyboard as a french keyboard. You can also have it as a shortcut.. to swith from languages to languages...

Am I missing something ?

Cheers,
Fred

 

I believe that light indicates whether the laptop is on or off.

Edit: The wireless light looks something like this:

 

Thanks for the picture The wireless light is some distance from the other indicators.

 

I'll also be very interested if someone could explain how to do this. I guess there are a lot this keyboard can do which I'm unaware of. Typing foreign languages is something essential that a Thinkpad should be good in dealing with.

 

Which operating system is installed on your ThinkPad? XP? Vista? Based on that I may be able to provide with some tips.


In case you are using Vista, just go to Control Panel and select "change keyboard or other input methods":

Keyboards and Languages [tab]
> Change keyboards [button]
> Add [button]

then select any language you want (even Yakut is supported there).

HTH,
Daniel

 

Thanks for offering help! FYI, I have XP Pro on my T61.

 

Sorry for not explaning because here its common to know how to change your keyb language because OS a rarely configured to write french accents !

In XP you have to go to (in the case you have not find it)

Control Panel
Regional and language options (free translation here...)
Languages tab
Details

Then you can add new keyboards languages... for example, to write french I use the Canadian multilingual keyboard. In the French (Canada) group. If you choose french France, you'll end up with an azerty keyboard I think.. it can be funny but not productive at all.

 

"'"♫'8(/é9/"8'8(9é"'é Thank you! I added a French (France). I can see I can type the accents, but is there a display of key mapping? Otherwise I can only type blindly and try every single key to see what it produces.

 

can you use the Thinkpad keyboard customization application? I don't know what it is/does exactly because I unistalled it and I'm not using it, but from its name I assume it would do just that: map (little-used) keys of your keyboard to accented letters.

Just a thought... For typing whole articles, it might be better to set the keyboard to the language you're typing in, and typing blindly.

 

am a newbie...got this t43 second hand, with a chinese keyboard...it has too many keys which i do not need... can you please tell me if i can get a US english keyboard and replace it... will it work? i hope i can change the language option... i loaded it with ubuntu 7.0 side by, although it had xp sp2.... thanks a lot.

 

Yes it is replaceable.

 

Thanks a lot...saves me