Re: Newbie to Oracle: Question on SQLPLUS

Karsten Farrell wrote:

> cwtam_at_hotmail.com said...
> > After changing the keyboard setting from US(international) to US, I can
> > now type the single quote '. Before that I can only type ´.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > CWT
> >
> On the US(international) keyboard, I think you type an apostrophe
> followed by another character to generate a letter with an acute above
> it. For example, to create an a-acute character (á in html), you
> type an apostrophy followed by an a. To create an o-umlaut (ö in
> html), you type a colon followed by an o.
>
> That's why you had to press the key twice; it was waiting for the letter
> to which it should add the acute.

Handy reference table for Mac and Win users looking for internation character to be entered/displayed in some environments at http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/greal/lrnrsc/ANSIchars.html Received on Sun May 18 2003 - 11:25:21 CDT