I need to know the keyboard shortcuts to access international accents, punctuation, and pronunciation characters as in French, German, Spanish, Scandanavian languages etc. Is there a printout available?

On Windows XP

1. Log On
2. Click the Start button
3. Click on Control Panel
4. Click Regional and Language Options - a new window will pop up
5. Click the Languages tab
6. Click on the Details button
7. Click the Add button - a new window will pop up
8. Select United States-International (keyboard layout menu)
9. Click OK
10. Click Apply
11. Read the instructions for "Using the U.S. - International Keyboard" below.

Note: You will now have a keyboard icon on the taskbar (usually on the right side). To switch between keyboard layouts click the keyboard icon on the task bar and choose which layout you want to use. Changing the keyboard layout will only affect the log on profile used. No other users will be affected.

Windows Vista

1. Start-->Control Panel-->Clock, Language, Region-->Change Keyboards
2. New Window: Click the Change Keyboards button
3. New Window: Click the Add button
4. Select United States-International keyboard
5. Click OK
6. From drop down menu (Default Input Language) select United States International

Using the U.S. - International Keyboard If you followed the above directions carefully, your keyboard will now react slightly differently than it did before. First of all, notice that if you strike the single apostrophe (') key, nothing happens. To type the single apostrophe now, you must strike the single apostrophe key and then strike the space bar. When you strike the spacebar, the apostrophe will appear.
The next thing to note is that the quotes (") key behaves the same way as the apostrophe key. You must first strike the quotes key and then strike the space bar in order to create the (") symbol. These two minor inconveniences are more than made up for by the ease with which you can now type the special characters.
To type the special characters, two keystrokes are required. To type the ?, you need only strike the apostrophe key and then the letter a. The other characters are just as easy:

• ? = ' + a
• ? = ' + e
• ? = ' + i
• ? = ' + o
• ? = ' + u
• ? = ~ + n
• ? = " + u

To type the special punctuation characters, you need to hold down on the Alt key while you strike the appropriate punctuation mark. On some keyboards, only one of the two Alt keys will work for this.

• ¡ = Alt (hold down) + !
• ¿ = Alt (hold down) + ?

Using Cryptic Codes If, for some reason, you don't want to change your keyboard, you can always type in the troublesome cryptic codes. Using this arcane system, the following codes apply:

• ? = Alt + 0225
• ? = Alt + 0233
• ? = Alt + 0237
• ? = Alt + 0243
• ? = Alt + 0250
• ? = Alt + 0241
• ? = Alt + 0252

• ¡ = Alt + 0161
• ¿ Alt + 0191

When using this utterly out-dated system, there are two important things to remember. First, when you type in the numbers, some keyboards require that you use the "numeric keypad" located to the side, rather than the numbers along the top. Second, on some keyboards, only one of the two Alt keys will work for this.

Upper case 2.

You can use the table below to identify the 3 digit code on the base plate with it's language. Please note that this is a comprehensive list of the Hewlett Packard codes, version of mobile devices may not be available in every listed form.
hp Internal Regional Codes #AB0 Taiwan #AB1 Korea #AB2 China #AB4 Singapore Malaysia #AB5 Hong Kong #AB6 Arabia (French) #AB7 Greece #AB8 Turkey #AB9 Portugal #ABA US (English) #ABB Europe (English) #ABC Canada (French) #ABD Germany #ABE Spain #ABF France #ABG Australia #ABH Netherlands #ABJ Japan #ABM Latin America (Spanish) #ABN Norway #ABP Swiss (German) #ABQ Swiss (French) #ABS Sweden #ABT Hebrew #ABU UK (English) #ABV Arabia (English) #ABW Belgium (Flemish) #ABX Finland #ABY Denmark #ABZ Italy #AC4 Brazil #AC8 Argentina (Spanish) #ACB Russia #ACQ South Africa #ACY Sweden (English) #AKB Czech #AKC Hungary #AKD Poland #AKG Eastern Europe #AKJ Hebrew Enabled (English) #AKL Thailand #AKN Slovenia #AKR Slovakia #AKV South America (Spanish) #ARL Baltic

Windows has support for "foreign" keyboards, e.g., Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, et cetera, that have different graphics for some of the keys.

Access "Control Panel", then "Regional and Language Options", and select the 'USA' keyboard.

I am providng you a Pdf Link which contains the manual for the keyboard present in this PC.

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00911808/c00911808.pdf


Adobe Reader should be present on the system...

Hope this helps..

Regards
Ken

came online to find the answer myself, and then fooled around with my keyboard... try pressing ctrl + shift. It just worked for mine. Good luck!

If you just want to change the keyboard and general language settings, you simply go to the Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Regional/Language settings and change your language.

If your friend installed the Turkish version of WinXP (i.E. all the alert boxes are in Turkish) and you want to modify it to another language - that's a totally different and more complex situation.

In order to change the whole system language you can install a newer service pack in a different Language or uninstall the last installed Service Pack and after changing the registry settings below Install it again.
!!!Make always a backup of your Registry first !

You have XP SP2 in Turkish and want to change your systmes language to English, you will have to download SP3 in English (link).
(You can change the language here to another one before the download.)
Then you will have to change some registry keys. (Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlNlsLanguage Registry Key), and change the value for “Default” and “InstallLanguage” from 041F (Turkish) to 0409 (English).
Reboot and you'll be able to install SP3 in English.
If no problems occur, you will have the whole system language changed.
Here is the List of numbers that represents each language in the registry:
* 0436 = "af;Afrikaans"
* 041C = "sq;Albanian"
* 0001 = "ar;Arabic"
* 0401 = "ar-sa;Arabic (Saudi Arabia)"
* 0801 = "ar-iq;Arabic (Iraq)"
* 0C01 = "ar-eg;Arabic (Egypt)"
* 1001 = "ar-ly;Arabic (Libya)"
* 1401 = "ar-dz;Arabic (Algeria)"
* 1801 = "ar-ma;Arabic (Morocco)"
* 1C01 = "ar-tn;Arabic (Tunisia)"
* 2001 = "ar-om;Arabic (Oman)"
* 2401 = "ar-ye;Arabic (Yemen)"
* 2801 = "ar-sy;Arabic (Syria)"
* 2C01 = "ar-jo;Arabic (Jordan)"
* 3001 = "ar-lb;Arabic (Lebanon)"
* 3401 = "ar-kw;Arabic (Kuwait)"
* 3801 = "ar-ae;Arabic (you.A.E.)"
* 3C01 = "ar-bh;Arabic (Bahrain)"
* 4001 = "ar-qa;Arabic (Qatar)"
* 042D = "eu;Basque"
* 0402 = "bg;Bulgarian"
* 0423 = "be;Belarusian"
* 0403 = "ca;Catalan"
* 0004 = "zh;Chinese"
* 0404 = "zh-tw;Chinese (Taiwan)"
* 0804 = "zh-cn;Chinese (China)"
* 0C04 = "zh-hk;Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)"
* 1004 = "zh-sg;Chinese (Singapore)"
* 041A = "hr;Croatian"
* 0405 = "cs;Czech"
* 0406 = "the;Danish"
* 0413 = "nl;Dutch (Netherlands)"
* 0813 = "nl-be;Dutch (Belgium)"
* 0009 = "en;English"
* 0409 = "en-us;English (United States)"
* 0809 = "en-gb;English (United Kingdom)"
* 0C09 = "en-au;English (Australia)"
* 1009 = "en-ca;English (Canada)"
* 1409 = "en-nz;English (New Zealand)"
* 1809 = "en-ie;English (Ireland)"
* 1C09 = "en-za;English (South Africa)"
* 2009 = "en-jm;English (Jamaica)"
* 2809 = "en-bz;English (Belize)"
* 2C09 = "en-tt;English (Trinidad)"
* 0425 = "et;Estonian"
* 0438 = "fo;Faeroese"
* 0429 = "fa;Farsi"
* 040B = "fi;Finnish"
* 040C = "fr;French (France)"
* 080C = "fr-be;French (Belgium)"
* 0C0C = "fr-ca;French (Canada)"
* 100C = "fr-ch;French (Switzerland)"
* 140C = "fr-lu;French (Luxembourg)"
* 043C = "gd;Gaelic"
* 0407 = "de;German (Germany)"
* 0807 = "de-ch;German (Switzerland)"
* 0C07 = "de-at;German (Austria)"
* 1007 = "de-lu;German (Luxembourg)"
* 1407 = "de-li;German (Liechtenstein)"
* 0408 = "el;Greek"
* 040D = "he;Hebrew"
* 0439 = "hi;Hindi"
* 040E = "hu;Hungarian"
* 040F = "is;Icelandic"
* 0421 = "in;Indonesian"
* 0410 = "it;Italian (Italy)"
* 0810 = "it-ch;Italian (Switzerland)"
* 0411 = "ja;Japanese"
* 0412 = "ko;Korean"
* 0426 = "lv;Latvian"
* 0427 = "lt;Lithuanian"
* 042F = "mk;FYRO Macedonian"
* 043E = "ms;Malay (Malaysia)"
* 043A = "mt;Maltese" 0414 = "no;Norwegian (Bokmal)"
* 0814 = "no;Norwegian (Nynorsk)"
* 0415 = "pl;Polish"
* 0416 = "pt-br;Portuguese (Brazil)"
* 0816 = "pt;Portuguese (Portugal)"
* 0417 = "rm;Rhaeto-Romanic"
* 0418 = "ro;Romanian"
* 0818 = "ro-mo;Romanian (Moldova)"
* 0419 = "ru;Russian"
* 0819 = "ru-mo;Russian (Moldova)"
* 0C1A = "sr;Serbian (Cyrillic)"
* 081A = "sr;Serbian (Latin)"
* 041B = "sk;Slovak"
* 0424 = "sl;Slovenian"
* 042E = "sb;Sorbian"
* 040A = "es;Spanish (Traditional Sort)"
* 080A = "es-mx;Spanish (Mexico)"
* 0C0A = "es;Spanish (International Sort)"
* 100A = "es-gt;Spanish (Guatemala)"
* 140A = "es-cr;Spanish (Costa Rica)"
* 180A = "es-pa;Spanish (Panama)"
* 1C0A = "es-do;Spanish (Dominican Republic)"
* 200A = "es-ve;Spanish (Venezuela)"
* 240A = "es-co;Spanish (Colombia)"
* 280A = "es-pe;Spanish (Peru)"
* 2C0A = "es-ar;Spanish (Argentina)"
* 300A = "es-ec;Spanish (Ecuador)"
* 340A = "es-cl;Spanish (Chile)"
* 380A = "es-uy;Spanish (Uruguay)"
* 3C0A = "es-py;Spanish (Paraguay)"
* 400A = "es-bo;Spanish (Bolivia)"
* 440A = "es-sv;Spanish (El Salvador)"
* 480A = "es-hn;Spanish (Honduras)"
* 4C0A = "es-ni;Spanish (Nicaragua)"
* 500A = "es-pr;Spanish (Puerto Rico)"
* 0430 = "sx;Sutu"
* 041D = "sv;Swedish"
* 081D = "sv-fi;Swedish (Finland)"
* 041E = "th;Thai"
* 0431 = "ts;Tsonga"
* 0432 = "tn;Tswana"
* 041F = "tr;Turkish"
* 0422 = "uk;Ukrainian"
* 0420 = "your;Urdu"
* 042A = "vi;Vietnamese"
* 0434 = "xh;Xhosa"
* 043D = "ji;Yiddish"
* 0435 = "zu;Zulu"

Tilde A character ( ~ ) found on computer keyboards that is generally below the escape, or ESC, key and on the same key as the back quote that is similar to a squiggly line. Below are a few examples of how the tilde is used.

1. Shorten long file names in Microsoft Windows 95 above. For example, changing the "Program Files" directory to "Progra~1".
   
2. Access the console in programs and games.
   
3. Get to the home directory on a Linux computer (for example: cd ~).
   

• An additional listing of computer keyboard keys can be found by clicking here.
  
• Information about why you may have files on your desktop that are tildes can be found on document CH000527.
  

Tilde A character ( ~ ) found on computer keyboards that is generally below the escape, or ESC, key and on the same key as the back quote that is similar to a squiggly line. Below are a few examples of how the tilde is used.

1. Shorten long file names in Microsoft Windows 95 above. For example, changing the "Program Files" directory to "Progra~1".
   
2. Access the console in programs and games.
   
3. Get to the home directory on a Linux computer (for example: cd ~).
   

• An additional listing of computer keyboard keys can be found by clicking here.
  
• Information about why you may have files on your desktop that are tildes can be found on document CH000527.
  

Tilde:

A character ( ~ ) found on computer keyboards that is generally below the escape, or ESC, key and on the same key as the back quote that is similar to a squiggly line. Below are a few examples of how the tilde is used.

1.Shorten long file names in Microsoft Windows 95 above. For example, changing the "Program Files" directory to "Progra~1".
2.Access the console in programs and games.
3.Get to the home directory on a Linux computer (for example: cd ~).
•An additional listing of computer keyboard keys can be found by clicking here.
•Information about why you may have files on your desktop that are tildes can be found on document CH000527.

Alt Codes for typing Spanish characters:Here are the codes for Spanish Accents: Capitals á ALT+0193 é ALT+0201 í ALT+0205 ó ALT+0211 ú ALT+0218 ñ ALT+0209 ü ALT+0220
Lowercase á ALT+0225 é ALT+0233 í ALT+0237 ó ALT+0243 ú ALT+0250 ñ ALT+0241 ü ALT+0252 Punctuation ¿ ALT+0191 ¡ ALT+0161 « ALT+0171 (Left Angle Quote) » ALT+0187 (Right Angle Quote) € ALT+0128 Buenas Suerte,
Jose Diaz
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yes some portables you have to press fn key look for the key that says alt in blue color and use the numbers on keyboard it's in blue too relase and wala spanish caracters

alt 130 é

alt 160 á

alt 161 í

alt 162 ó

alt 163 ú

alt 164 ñ

alt 165 ñ

alt 168 ¿

alt 129 ü