Quickly accessing Turkish characters.

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Quickly accessing Turkish characters.

I've made a few friends on holiday in Turkey last week and want to speak to them + learn Turkish through MSN, but there's no way of getting through the following characters: ş, ı and ğ, without opening up that special characters programme, which takes too long for what I'm doing. Can they be quickly accessed, and how?

Thanks...!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Bought ~April '08

Posted on Jun 3, 2008 9:07 AM

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Answer 1

Aalto Author

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Jun 3, 2008 1:57 PM in response to V.K.

Thanks, kind sir. What do I do from here, or am I missing something out. Excuse my lack of tech-savviness, but things may have to be spelt out for me from here on. Thanks for your efforts.

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Aalto Author

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Jun 4, 2008 2:08 AM in response to V.K.

Ah! I've found it out. No worries, you were right. I just have to hold down alt and the key I want modifying to get them. It's all fine now; sorry about that. Thanks!

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V.K.

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Jun 3, 2008 9:19 AM in response to Aalto

Aalto wrote:
I've made a few friends on holiday in Turkey last week and want to speak to them + learn Turkish through MSN, but there's no way of getting through the following characters: ş, ı and ğ, without opening up that special characters programme,

which program do you mean?

You can add Turkish to the input menu and put the input menu in the menu bar.

To do that go to system preferences->international->input menu. check the checkbox next to Turkish on the language list and also check the box at the bottom to show the input menu in the menu bar.

To make switching even quicker you can set keyboard shortcuts to do that. Those are set in system preferences->keyboard&mouse->keyboard shortcuts.

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V.K.

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Jun 3, 2008 2:22 PM in response to Aalto

sorry, I don't quite understand your question. could you state it fully please? have you followed the steps in my original post or are you having problems with those?

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