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Hi folks,

a bit of a two parter this...
1) Where does TextPads method of adding International Characters come from and why on earth do the Microsoft apps not use the same method?! Ctrl-` and then a,e,i,o or u to put a grave accent on these characters is so much easier to remember than say ALT -0242 to do an o grave character.

2) Bearing this in mind, if I was to write an app for a customer that needed to do this kind of thing a lot, could I legally/technically, embed the editor window part of TextPad as a control in my app?

Alex Tearse
ReefNet
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In my Textpad, I just use the accent and then the vowel, no ctrl.

It was like this on the old typewriters, the accents printed onto the paper but did not move the paper, so the next letter typed was at the same position. This way, the typewriter did not need to have a key for each accent-vowel combination.

For part 2 of your post, I think you have to ask the textpad people directly.