US – International Extended v. 2.1
created by: Carly J. Born, Carleton College
copyright 2010
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This installer will install a custom designed keyboard for use in English with additional support for inputting characters for Hungarian, Indic Transcription, and Pinyin input. It is based on the US - International layout provided by Windows, which also allows for easy input of accented characters used in many European languages. This installer is provided as is with no promise of support outside of Carleton College. Install at your own risk.
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This keyboard layout is tested on Windows XP. It is untested on Windows 2000, Windows Vista or Windows 7, but I think it should work. It will not work on Windows 98 or earlier.
Installation
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First, extract the ZIP file to an uncompressed folder:
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This will allow you to choose between the standard US input and the United States – Intl Extended v2.1 inputs from the language bar. Because it is based on the US-International keyboard, it is possible to use the United States – Intl Extended v2.1 as your only input keyboard. To do this, remove any other English inputs from the Text Services dialog box (Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages).
Using US – Intl Extended v. 2.1
In the list below, a comma (,) means to release the previous keys prior to striking the next keys; a plus sign (+) means to continue holding the previous keys while striking the next keys listed.
acute accent, pinyin 2nd tone | apostrophe, vowel | (e.g. á é í ó ú) |
grave accent, pinyin 4th tone | grave, vowel | (e.g. à è ì ò ù) |
c cedilla | apostrophe, c | (e.g. ç) |
macron accent, pinyin 1st tone | hyphen, vowel | (e.g. ā ē ī ō ū ) |
vowel with umlaut | double-quote, vowel | (e.g. ä ë ï ö ü ÿ) |
vowel with circumflex | shift+6, vowel | (e.g. â ê î ô û) |
pinyin 3rd tone | Shift + 5, vowel | (e.g. ǎ ě ǐ ǒ ǔ) |
ü with pinyin tones | Accent, double-quote | (e.g. ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ) |
letter with tilde | tilde, letter | (e.g. õ ñ ã) |
letter with dot below | shift+period, letter | (e.g. ạ ḅ ṇ ọ ẓ) |
letter with double acute | shift+; , o or u | (e.g. ő, ű, Ő, Ű) |
« | ctrl + alt + [ |
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» | ctrl + alt + ] |
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€ | ctrl + alt + 5 |
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ß | ctrl + alt + s | *see note below |
ø | ctrl + alt + l alt+ l (in Office 2013) | *see note below |
¿ | ctrl + alt + / |
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¡ | ctrl + alt + 1 | * see note below |
œ | Right alt + k |
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* Some key combinations will not work within Microsoft Word because of the standard keyboard shortcuts that Word employs. Below is a list of Word shortcut keys that you might want to disable in order to type some European characters
Disabling Word Shortcut Keys:
The way to disable shortcut keys varies depending on which version of Office you have.
Office 2010 or earlier
- In Word, open the Tools menu > Customize
- Click on the button at the bottom that says Keyboard
- Highlight the Category and Command that you want to disable
- Under the Current Keys box, highlight the conflicting shortcut key and then click the Remove button at the bottom of the screen.
- Close all windows when you are finished
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3) To type ø, disabling the ListBullet does not work. The work around that I found was to assign the appropriate keystroke to the ø character. You can do this by going to the Insert menu > Symbol, then highlight the ø character in the table and click on the Shortcut Key button. Here you can assign a shortcut key combination much the same way you removed it from the other locations.
Office 2013
- In Word, right-click anywhere on the Ribbon and choose Customize Ribbon
- Find Keyboard Shortcuts at the bottom of the window that appears and click Customize
- In the Categories menu on the left, scroll down and select All Commands
- Highlight the command you want to disable in the left column (hit the first letter of the command to jump to that part of the list)
- In the Current Keys box, highlight the conflicting shortcut key and click the Remove button at the bottom of the window.
- Close all windows when finished.
- To type ß, disable the command called DocSplit
- To type ¡, disable the command called ApplyHeading1
- To type ø, use the keystroke alt+l (lowercase L). It is not necessary to disable any Word shortcuts for this.
Screen Shots of Layout
Below are screen shots of this keyboard layout. Dark gray keys signify dead keys.
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In order for this input method to work, you must use fonts that contain the characters necessary for Hungarian, Indic transliteration or Pinyin. For example, most common fonts contain the vowels with macron (e.g. ā, ō), but the number of fonts that include the n with a dot below (ṇ) are few. Generally, a font will support certain code pages of Unicode, but not all.
As of Windows 7, it is generally not necessary to worry about your fonts. Most of the more common fonts on Windows 7 will support most of the characters you can type with this keyboard.
To understand this fully, it helps to know which characters are part of which code pages in Unicode. Below is a short list of the code pages needed to use the diacritics supported by this keyboard, and the characters that below to each.
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