How to Enter Accents on Letters on Facebook
By Aurelio Locsin
If your Facebook postings are primarily in English and you use a keyboard designed for American English speakers, you can simply enter your messages by pressing keys. However, if you want to enter foreign words with accent marks or type in a foreign language with such marks, you need to use ALT codes.
Press the “NumLock” key on your numeric keypad to turn on the NumLock light. This enables you to enter codes for accents on letters using those numeric keys. For unaccented characters, use the alphabetic keypad as usual.
Enter grave foreign accent by pressing "Alt" and then the listed code from the numeric keypad: À: 0192, È: 0200 , Ì: 0204, Ò: 0210, Ù: 0217, à: 0224, è: 0232, ì: 0236 , ò: 0242 , ù: 0249.
Enter acute accents with the following "Alt" key codes: Á: 0193, É: 0201, Í: 0205, Ó: 0211, Ú: 0218, Ý: 0221, á: 0225, é: 0233, í: 0237, ó: 0243, ú: 0250, ý: 0253:
Enter circumflex accents with the following "Alt" codes: Â: 0194, Ê: 0202, Î: 0206, Ô: 0212, Û: 0219, â: 0226, ê: 0234, î: 0238, ô: 0244, û: 0251.
Enter tilde accents with the following "Alt" codes:: Ã: 0195, Ñ: 0209, Õ: 0213, ã: 0227, ñ: 0241, õ: 0245.
Enter umlaut accents with the following "Alt" codes: : Ä: 0196, Ë: 0203, Ï: 0207, Ö: 0214, Ü: 0220, Ÿ: 0159: ä: 0228, ë: 0235, ï: 0239, ö: 0246, ü: 0252, ÿ: 0255.
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Aurelio Locsin has been writing professionally since 1982. He published his first book in 1996 and is a frequent contributor to many online publications, specializing in consumer, business and technical topics. Locsin holds a Bachelor of Arts in scientific and technical communications from the University of Washington.