how to type 'nu' with two dots above it when using windows language bar?
mongo
October 24, 2007 at 02:41 AM posted in General Discussionquick question regarding entering chinese character under windows... how can i type 'nu' with two dots above it when using windows language bar and a US keyboard under windows vista? when i type the pinyin "nu" as in female... i think the language bar is expecting me to type it with two dots above the character in order for it to find the correct character... but, i have no idea how to enter that on a US keyboard...
谢谢
goulnik
October 24, 2007 at 02:45 PM
pair of dots is a umlaut in German. u-umlaut is ALT+0252 with Windows, but only works from the numeric keypad. The procedure I indicated should work though.
mongo
October 24, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Actually, i've been avoiding Microsoft Word since they removed the menu bar and made everything a little button... ouch! ...had to install openoffice to get anything done....
hey, that quote-u thing sounds vaguely familiar to a German keyboard....I seem to recall there was a way to type u-double-dot by holding down the ALT key followed by typing a number code on the numpad... since i'm using a laptop that doesn't have an extra numpad on the side, i'm not sure how that would work exactly...
what's the name of u-double dot? its rather ackward to say u-double dot everytime... :-)
BTW, the v in the pinyin works great!
goulnik
October 24, 2007 at 10:34 AMif what you want really is an ascii representation of nü (i.e. pinyin as opposed to entering nv into a Chinese IME, you can get it with a US keyboard and US-International keyboard mapping by typing " (double quote, shifted from single quote key) followed by letter u.
mongo
October 24, 2007 at 06:40 PMü Zuper! Its seems that on a Dell XPS laptop, it works like the 2nd function key on a calculator:
ALT+Fn+0252(numbers in blue)
Just noticed there's a nice article on wikipedia about umlat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_%28diacritic%29
"The usage of double dots over vowels, particularly ü, also occurs in the transcription of languages that do not use the Roman alphabet, such as Chinese. For example, 女 (female) is transcribed as nü in proper Mandarin Chinese pinyin, while nv is sometimes used as a replacement for convenience since the letter v is not used in pinyin." (from wikipedia)