Accents

Converting ASCII to ISO-Latin-1

Wiki uses the ISO-8859 character set (also known as ISO-Latin-1), which includes characters with accents and special characters for latin alphabets. If you use a keyboard that has such character keys, you can enter text directly.

But if you don't have such a keyboard, you can still enter non-ASCII characters with the following method:

When editing a page, click the "Convert accents" check box next to the Author text field, below the main text.
To input characters with accents, enter the character then the accent. For example, to input "é", input "e'".
Other special characters are available, which are listed below.
When you save the page, these special character pairs are converted into ISO-8859 characters and saved as such in the page.

Here is the list of available characters:

all the vowels, upper-case or lower-case, followed by an acute accent ('), a grave accent (`), a circumflex (^) or an umlaut (").
",c" and ",C" turn into a c-cédilla (ç) ;
"AE" and "ae" turn into the ae-ligature (æ) ;
"Aa" and "aa" turn into a-ring (å) ;
"O/" and "o/" turn into o-slash (ø) ;
"a~", "n~" and "o~" turn into tilde-characters (ã, ñ and õ) ;
"^!" and "^?" turn into upside down exclamation and question marks (¡ ¿) ;
"^c" et "^r" turn into the copyright and trademark signs (©, ®)

Note : single quotes are used to put words in italics. So a vowel followed by an accute accent (e.g. e') is only converted if the vowel is followed by 1 or 3 quotes.

"C'est l'été" is spelled "c'est l'e'te'".

Beware also when text is surrounded by double quotes. If the last character before the closing quote is a vowel, it will get an umlaut and the double quote will disappear:

"Wiki" will give "Wikï

Please don't edit this page with accent conversion on!

Version 1, Mon 23 Nov 1998 18:18:31 [mbl]