Portege R600 - type accents in WinXP [solution inside]

I've been dealing with this since I bought this laptop 2 years ago, and I found a solution, so I thought I should share it with you in case someone experienced similar problems.

I often need to type special characters (e, e, e, e and similar to a, i, o, u) in my browser, but I can't use the keys on my keyboard. The standard way to do this is to type, for example 'AltGr + 0234' go e. However, on the R600, the 4 is also the left arrow of the keyboard fn, which means that my browser active the back button. Therefore, I can not type this symbol in my browser.

I can't use dead keys since I need regular 'e', a, etc. 99% of the time (I'm a programmer) and even with dead keys, it does not always work though. So, I resorted to inefficient solutions such as the opening of the charmap and select the symbol, or as type the symbol in Notepad and copy/paste. But this isn't a real solution.

I just found the real solution today: http://code.google.com/p/usialtgr/ this moves the dead to the alt - gr key, keys which allows me to schedule without worries and allow me to type special characters commonly with AltGr and without any other problems. It made me so happy I thought I should share it. :-)

(Should work on all models of laptop, of course, but for this one, it is more critical, since the '4' keyboard activates the arrow to the left as well.) Keywords: Dead keys ALT GR, windows, keyboard layout, accents, special characters.)

Thank you very much for this article interesting.

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