Foreign words

[anthony baldwin]

Art Alexion wrote:

>On Monday 18 December 2006 12:06, Simone wrote:
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>>Neil Winchurst ha scritto:
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>>>I am wondering how to get the correct spelling of some foreign words
>>>that need an accent, eg words like cafe, fiancee which really need an
>>>accent on the letter e. I can manage fine in OO writer but how about an
>>>email client? Or how about when I am writing a blog in a browser? Can
>>>anyone help please?
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>>If you search on the OOo writer help, you can find a guide to write
>>these special char under Linux. If you can't find it, read this link:
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>>http://www.3till7.net/2005/12/28/non-english-characters-in-linux/
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>I don't think he needs help entering the characters, but rather getting his 
>spellchecker to recognize them correctly.
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>I can sympathize.  I use US-English dictionary.  The correct spelling is Café, 
>but my spellchecker says that is wrong and wants cafe, which is wrong.  Same 
>with résumé vs. resume.  Résumé is a curriculum vitae; resume means to start 
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>It's annoying.
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It´s easy enough to alter the language/dictionary for a portion of text.
Right click, choose ¨character¨ and change the language.

tony
http://www.baldwinlinguas.com